Robbie Robertson Quotes

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

I'd play with these Indian players, the tabla and sitar.

It is so important for people at a young age to be invited to embrace classical music and opera.

I got my first instrument for Christmas when I was three or four years old. My parents got me a mandolin because it was the only instrument that would fit me because I was so small. I went straight from that into the drums when I was six, and then I started playing guitar when I was seven or eight.

For me to have the opportunity to learn the darbuka and the tabla in Dubai, it created my own thoughts for music.

I don't see myself as some kind of fightin'-the-good-fight guy. But I always feel like if you don't like one kind of music or the other, it's just not for you.

I've always believed in good music over bad music. I believe in two sorts of musics. And the lines that separate us, I don't believe in that. That's for people who need to easily define what they're hearing. Me, I'm cool with everything and anything I'm hearing that's music. It comes under one definition for me.

I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

I listen to some really bad country.

Everyone's gonna have their opinion, everyone's gonna have their favorite bands. The best way I can describe it is music is like food, either you love it, hate it, or are indifferent about it. Or you grow up and acquire a taste for it.

I learned tabla for three years when in school, then started picking up the basics of the acoustic guitar when in college.

I've never been one of those people who say, 'Oh, well, if you play this kind of music, you can only like these kinds of bands.'

We try not to think that our listeners are one-track-minded people with the music they listen to.

My basic grammar is in Indian classical music, Carnatic music, and Hindustani music, but I don't believe that that is the only form of music I will learn. I don't believe in that, because I am a very open minded person.

I have been exposed to different kinds of Marathi and Hindi music, classical music, and English songs since childhood.

I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.

Thinking Slayer's music is not my thing doesn't mean I don't respect the band for what they are and what they've done. I just won't play it. As I can imagine they won't listen to mine either, for that matter.

I always play songs that are very based in folk music.

So many young kids are fickle when it comes to music. There comes a time when you're not cool again.

I do play a lot of instruments. I started with the harp when I was young and then sort of moved to guitar and piano.

I'm the worst critic about music myself. I hardly ever, ever like something the first time I listen to it.

Music is music - it makes no difference what it is. I can like Slipknot and Public Enemy equally.

When a different type of music is put in front of you, you can choose for yourself what you're supposed to like.

I'm not a country music fan, so if you slide me some music and say, 'You gotta check this out; it's country,' I'm going to be a little hesitant to listen, and I think if someone says, 'Hey, you gotta listen to this guy rap; he's Christian,' you're like, 'I don't identify as Christian, so not really sure I want to listen to that.'

Coming from bluegrass background, I totally understand family harmonies.