Top 90 Quotes by Robbie Robertson

The native music of North America, the original-roots music of this country, is also the underworld music of this country.

I asked Bob Dylan to paint the album cover for 'Music from Big Pink.' He said, 'Yeah, let me see what I can come up with.'

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

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

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 want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'

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

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

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.'

It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.