Robbie Robertson
Robbie Robertson
Jaime Royal "Robbie" Robertson, OC, is a Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist best known for his work as lead guitarist and primary songwriter for The Band. As a songwriter, he is credited for "The Weight", "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down", "Up on Cripple Creek", "Broken Arrow", "Somewhere Down the Crazy River", and many others. He has been inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame and was ranked 59th in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the 100 greatest guitarists...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth5 July 1943
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.
I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was 14, I was in a wanna-be New Orleans band in Toronto.
There's a bookstore in New York where you could buy scripts, and I got addicted to them because they were easy, quick reads and the pictures were so vivid.
I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.
I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.
Bob Dylan is as influential as any artist that there has been.
Music should never be harmless.
Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.
There's a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.
I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.
I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.
I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.
Everybody grows in their own way.
I don't want to be one of those people saying, 'Remember when things were better?'