Canadian - Musician | July 5, 1943 -
Everybody grows in their own way.
Robbie Robertson
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By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.
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I don't like overt traditionalism.
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That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.
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My thirst for knowledge and experience comes from the idea that once you learned something, it was time to learn something else. I missed out on a formal educational process, so I'm making up for that.
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When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'
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I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
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The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo.
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Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?
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There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
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The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, 'Please do it faster.'
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I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don't want to do it.
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