Robbie Robertson Quotes - Page 2

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

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

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

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

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

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

Everybody grows in their own way.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?'

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 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.

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.