Robbie robertson quotes

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.

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

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.

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.

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

When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

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.

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.

Music should never be harmless.

You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.

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.

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.'

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

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

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.

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.

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.

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

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. ... I remember from my earliest years, people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.

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

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.

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

You fog the mind, you stir the soul.

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.

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

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

While I was there, I was just gathering images and names, and ideas and rhythms, and I was storing all of these things - which I didn't realize I was doing - but I was storing them all in an attic in my mind somewhere. And when it was time to sit down and write songs, when I reached into the attic to see what I was gonna write about, that's what was there.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

I don't like overt traditionalism.

Boy, do I got some stories to tell.

At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'

Time is not kind to everything.

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