Robbie Robertson Play Quotations

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

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

When people get together that come from different musical backgrounds, a lot of times there's is a good ... it's very enjoyable to say somebody, let me turn you on to some things, and the other person does the same thing. And they play you stuff that maybe you weren't that familiar with and likewise.

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

I play guitar quite a bit, because I'm always in search of something. I don't play to jam, but because I'm fishing. I'm looking for something, that I hope you can never find. If I do find it, I'm afraid I won't have a need to do this any more.

I feel so lucky to have been in a group where it was a real band. This wasn't a singer and guitar player and some other guys.

In 1966, when we were playing that music, ... people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it.

In ?66 when we were playing that music, people were flipping out with anger at that music and hated it. Then we?re doing it a few years later, and people said, ?This is the real deal, and we knew it all along.