The Band Quotes
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I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.
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Always Great to play with Larry Campbell and Ge smith !! Lots of Twang!! Old Tele’s and Old fender amps!
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Were very excited to do this historic Show with our special guests! I was at this show in 1971. First time I saw The Band with ! Horns
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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
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Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.
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When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.
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Sixteen years on the road is long enough. Twenty years is unthinkable.
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We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
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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.'
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Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.
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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
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I remember from my earliest years people speaking, you know, in a certain kind of rhythm and telling stories and sharing experiences in a way that was different in Indian country than it was other places. And I was really struck by this and obviously very affected by it, because it's always come out in my songs.
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Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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One of the things I feel very strong about is the achievement of the Band really being a complete band.
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Music should never be harmless.
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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.'
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When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.
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I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.
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Do you know what a skin walker is? It's a thing in Indian mythology. There are certain people born with this gift, and they're able to actually get inside you and mess with your feelings and with your mind. And if a skin walker chooses to get a hold of you, there's not much you can do.
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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.
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It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.
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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.