Robbie Robertson Quotes

At 100, I have a mind that is superior - thanks to experience - than when I was 20.

No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.

I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I was younger.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.

I had to have experience, you know what I mean? Because I've been doing this since I was 14... I couldn't write about anything at 14. I had to live some life. I definitely lived some life.

The essence of age is intellect. Wherever that appears, we call it old.

What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.

Age brings wisdom to some men, and to others chess.

Genius is rarely able to give any account of its own processes.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

Everything, everything, everything! I want to know everything. I want the privilege of being a crone.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

I've never thought intelligence was age-related.

No man is ever old enough to know better.