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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I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.
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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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Always Great to play with Larry Campbell and Ge smith !! Lots of Twang!! Old Tele’s and Old fender amps!
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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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Music isn't necessarily made to last, and there's always been disposable music.
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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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Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
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There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
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Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
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I saw Ray Charles at Massey Hall.
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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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Music should never be harmless.
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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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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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I love traditional music. But in any culture around the world, there is the historic and cultural music and everything that's been passed down and passed down, and hopefully you take that, and then you take it, you know, the next distance, and then somebody else takes it the next distance.
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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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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.
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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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I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta.