Canadian - Musician | July 5, 1943 -
Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.
Robbie Robertson
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I was a storyteller for The Band. It was never, 'Hey guys, here's a song about what happened to me.' I was always more comfortable writing fiction.
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There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
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You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.
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I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
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After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
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My mother was a Mohawk, born and raised on a reservation, and when I was a kid, she would take me there to visit her relatives.
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I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
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To find a new star in the sky is pretty hard.
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In Americana, the facts and the dreams seem to be all the same to me.
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I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.
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I don't know - it's a bit of a mystery of how things come about when they do. I don't have a scientific explanation for it. Sometimes when you're writing a song, you don't know where you're going.
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