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 Read Quote
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. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
The Band is probably the ultimate example of people taking all kinds of music, from gospel to blues to mountain music to folk music to on and on and on and on and putting them all in this big pot and mixing up a new gumbo. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
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? Robbie Robertson Read Quote
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. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
The direction is going the right way for respect for aboriginal people in North America, and all we can do is stand up and say, ‘Please do it faster.’ Robbie Robertson Read Quote
I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn’t a singer and guitar player and some other guys. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
I do not have yearnings to get back on a bus. If it means getting on a bus, I don’t want to do it. Robbie Robertson Read Quote
