Robbie Robertson Quotes

When I was 19, I joined a rock band, and that's when I began to say, 'Okay, this is something that I could take seriously.' When I came to Minneapolis, it just refined everything.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.

Patrick and Joe were so young when we started the band. As slow as it was, with all the touring and crappy clubs we played, we still never had time to stop and reflect. When we took a break, it finally gave us time to reflect and grow up.

I started singing very early. I was six or seven years old, and I was singing along to TV commercials and figuring out, 'Oh, hey, I can sing in tune. This is really cool.' But the songwriting thing came much much later, when I was 19 years old.

The Richard Ashcroft of 1992 would have struggled to imagine the path my life has taken - he would be amazed at the changes in my song writing.

2112' basically set the course for my musical career and how I approached Dream Theater.

When I started to make music I wasn't as serious at first.

Touring is my favorite part of being a musician. All the places I've traveled and lived affect me in many different ways. Good and bad.

Growing up, just singing in bands, I didn't have the same kind of voice as everyone else.

Music is still my main thing, but I will explore anything that's interesting and challenging.

That song didn't just happen. It grew out of my experiences. 'American Pie' was part of my process of self-awakening: a mystical trip into my past.

I feel like fifteen years with Fleetwood Mac was like working on my thesis, doing research for some kind of paper.

If you give me a bass guitar and you ask me to improvise something, or even be with some musicians and follow them, I wouldn't be able to do it. And I want to change that.

The way I evolved was playing straight-ahead jazz into playing more fusion-type stuff just because I was young enough to get into it. As I get older, I find myself coming back to where I kind of started.

As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

I started playing and writing songs when I was eight.

I'm a late bloomer in music.

The day I stop learning and I don't try to make myself better on the guitar, that's the day I hang it up and say, 'Goodbye.'

I did country way back when I was, like, 13-14 years old, and then I kind of fell into the pop genre.

As I grew older, I realised that I could be versatile. I decided to try out a variety of singing styles by becoming a playback singer.

I was 29 or 30 when I felt sure of what I was doing, but not fully identifying as a songwriter until I was 37.

I was 15 when I started making music properly.

Music has always been something that I knew that I would eventually want to pursue.

I never left music, I just left the music scene.

There have been 700 or 800 songs I've written over the last 60 years, as I went through different periods of writing. I listen and marvel at how different they are and how they still stand up. They are very well done, if I must say so.