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Robbie Robertson
Canadian
Musician
Born:
Jul 5
,
1943
Always
Band
Me
Music
People
You
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I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
Robbie Robertson
Life
Old
Those
Willie
Willie Nelson
Nelson
Admire
Road
Dogs
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.
Robbie Robertson
Work
Me
Records
Inspired
Feel
Like
Because
Expected
There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.
Robbie Robertson
People
Healthy
Young
Unity
About
Something
Up
Young People
Speaking
I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.
Robbie Robertson
Great
Thought
Would
Would-Be
Cage
Always
Movie
Root
After the 'Last Waltz' concert, it just seemed very healthy to me to put making a record as far out of my mind as I possibly could.
Robbie Robertson
Me
Mind
Healthy
Out
Possibly
Record
Seemed
Could
Put
Concert
Making
Very
Waltz
Just
After
Far
Last
I thought of a lot of people from the same era when I was making a lot of records that had continued making a lot of records. A lot of it didn't seem terribly inspired.
Robbie Robertson
People
Thought
Seem
Records
Inspired
Had
Terribly
Making
Era
Continue
Lot
Same
I'm not an activist.
Robbie Robertson
Activist
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
You
Song
Writing
Sometimes
Bit
About
Mystery
Come
Know
Scientific
How
Going
Where
Explanation
Things
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
Me
Young
Kid
Introduced
Martin
Martin Scorsese
Had
Since
Bug
Been
Scorsese
Waltz
Movie
Young Kid
Working
Last
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
Wonderful
Kinds
Some
Silly
Calling
Parts
Got
Boyfriend
Years
Lots
Offers
Waltz
Maybe
Movie
After
Play
Last
A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't feel that way at all.
Robbie Robertson
Generation
Experience
People
Way
Unpleasant
My Generation
Write
Songs
Feel
Lot
Anymore
Really
Hard
The kid at 9 or 10 who knows who Billie Holiday is... that's the coolest thing ever.
Robbie Robertson
Kid
Knows
Holiday
Billie Holiday
Who
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Ever
Thing
Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'
Robbie Robertson
Love
Music
People
Some People
Year
Think
Thinking
Later
Some
Year Later
Hear
Chuck Berry told me if it wasn't for Louis Jordan, he wouldn't have probably ever even got into music. That Louis Jordan changed everything and made him want to become a musician.
Robbie Robertson
Music
Me
Made
Become
Changed
Chuck
Chuck Berry
Everything
Musician
Berry
He
Jordan
Him
Got
Louis
Want
Even
Ever
When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.
Robbie Robertson
Old
Like
Years
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
Playing
Time is not kind to everything.
Robbie Robertson
Time
Everything
Kind
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