Robbie Robertson Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“Time is not kind to everything.”

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

“When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.”

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

“You never know what could be interesting tomorrow.”

“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.”

“I always like to keep one hand in the tepee and the other hand in the synagogue. Wouldn't it be great if there was a combination of the two? You could go to synagogue, and it would be really hot in there.”

“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.”

“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.'”

“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.”