Robbie Robertson Quotes
I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.
Quotes to Explore
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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You become a parent when you have a baby, no matter how you get there.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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We lived in a classless society. We'd spend a summer at Gore Vidal's house in Italy, but we were on and off welfare.
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Muslims are not bloodthirsty people. Islam is a religion of peace that forbids the killing of the innocent. Islam also accepts the Prophets, whether those prophets are Mohammed, God's peace and blessing be upon Him, or Moses or the other prophets of the Books.
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I am fortunate to have only worn one shirt in my career. It is something that is fundamental to me. It is something I have always wanted: to be one of these few who wear only one shirt - a fan and a player of the same team.
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Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.
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The most important thing you will do is yet to be seen. For me, I found my important thing to do when I learned to do surgery on the eye, when I learned to restore a person's vision.
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Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.
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I care a lot about fragrance not only in my life, but sometimes it feels right while working on a character.
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Bisognan di valor segni più chiari,Che por con leggiadria la lancia in resta:Ma fortuna anco più bisogna assai;Che senza, val virtù raro o non mai.
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I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it's my own.
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Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization’s radical voice.
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Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.
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Nature gives us all, including Prof. Lorentz, surprises. It was very quickly found that there are many exceptions to the rule of splitting of the lines only into triplets.
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I feign no hypotheses.
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I've been really fortunate that I've been at a lot of critical crossroads in my musical journey. When I look back, there are some pretty interesting things to look at.
