Robbie Robertson Quotes

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.

Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.

We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.

There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

Most of my younger Native American friends are not in any way looking for sympathy, and they're not looking to lay guilt on anybody. They have their dignity, and they do what they do.

If I can play one note and make you cry, then that's better than those fancy dancers playing twenty notes.

Time is not kind to everything.

Music should never be harmless.

People go through periods when things are dark and cloudy, and they talk dark and cloudy.

I think that there's always great music being made. Always has been, always will be.

Musical revolutions, I don't know how many I've been through.

It's extraordinary that revolutions taking place around the world were sparked by communication on the Internet.

It's a bit of a sore spot, the Thanksgiving in Indian country.

The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.

The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.

There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.

When you make a record, your own record, and you don't even recognize it yourself, it's hard to think if anybody else is going to recognize.

Working on 'The Last Waltz' introduced me to Martin Scorsese, and I had been a movie bug since I was a young kid.

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

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?

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

Everybody grows in their own way.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.