Robbie Robertson Quotes - Page 2

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Storytelling, Feels

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Believe, Sand, Don't Believe

  Song: Fallen Angel, Album: Robbie Robertson, 1987

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Records, Inspired, Feels

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Roots, Would Be, Cages

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Song, Thinking, Emotional

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• Everybody grows in their own way.

  Robbie Robertson

  Way, Grows

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Records, Hard

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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• It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them. Instead of a bridge, you can call it a highway, or an overpass...Music should never be harmless.

  Robbie Robertson

  Nice, Bridges, Names

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Band, Reason, Touring

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  New York, Bookstores, Vivid

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• making a noise in this world making a noise in this world you can bet your ass, I won't go quietly making a noise in this world.

  Robbie Robertson

  Native American, World, Noise

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  New Orleans, Band, Toronto

  "POP MUSIC : Robertson Rides Rock Train Again". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. September 29, 1991.

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Confused, Reality, Cities

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Communication, World, Revolution

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Stupid, Rocks, Ideas

  "Rock and Roll". "Shakespeares in The Alley", openvault.wgbh.org. September 1995.

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Kids, Lasts, Bugs

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• I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

  Robbie Robertson

  Guitar, Fishing, Play

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Country, Spots, Indian

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Speaking Up, People, Healthy

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Years, People

  "Singer-songwriter-guitarist Robbie Robertson". "Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 16, 2013.

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Growing Up, Memories, Sides

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• Record making is an extraordinary experience.

  Robbie Robertson

  Records, Extraordinary

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Thinking, Feelings, Half

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• 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.

  Robbie Robertson

  Silly, Years, Play

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

  Robbie Robertson

  Records, Lifestyle, Interest

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