Robbie Robertson Quotes
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.'
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I can stay up watching TV so late.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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I love a vintage look that's also a bit rock n' roll.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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What I loved about wrestling was just being foolish, so I studied clown. I studied clown. I studied the art of clown. I actually did my thesis on clown.
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I've never been good at saying no.
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A few first rate research papers are preferable to a large number that are poorly conceived or half-finished. The latter are no credit to their writers and a waste of time to their readers.
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By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.
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I believe social media gives away a lot to people. I got this impression long time back when my friend was on Twitter, and he got trolled because he posted his opinion about something. He was very upset about it, as he didn't expect that people will reply in such a nasty way.
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A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
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No generation has escaped it - one morning, your skill with the eight-track or the record player or the cotton gin suddenly ceases to impress. It's just one of those inevitable disappointments that come with growing up, like the realization that Santa doesn't exist or the way that music always takes a turn for the worse after you turn 30.
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My life was in Montreal years ago. Best food in the world.
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I do have a childlike enthusiasm at times. I certainly enjoy life and get pleasure sometimes in childish things.
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The paintings are transferred from my computer to a disk, and I can hand it to the printer this way; or I can modem the painting to the printer over the phone lines from my house in Hawaii.
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I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.
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I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.
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The Universe doesn't know the difference between a dime and a million. If you refuse the dime, the Universe thinks you don't want money, so you collapse your chances.
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Man is a food-dependent creature. If you don't feed him, he will die. If you feed him improperly, part of him will die.
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I like happy sets. Happy sets are good, and I think people feel comfortable on them.
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It is not strange... to mistake change for progress.
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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.'
