Robbie Robertson Quotes

I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Nowadays, it's like two different arenas, recording and touring. When I started way back in the day, doing both was nothing, you didn't have to think about it, the road and recording.

I really want to put the emphasis on creating music. I want to cut a record. I want to start going on tour.

I've always known, before I had a record deal, that the thing is to go out and put on the show. I've been doing that from day one.

I started touring a little bit in 1973 in support of a record I made for an independent label. In 1975, when I signed with Warner Bros., where I remained happily ensconced for the next 24 years, my touring activity increased considerably.

I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.

I've toured the U.S. every single year and I've put a record out every single year whether it was on a major label or not; that doesn't make any difference to me.

I make records so I can go on tour. There's nothing else. I love to go out and play for people.

I think the reason I got into the music business was basically for the live aspect of it.

I want to record, tour, and just live life.

I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.

We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

We want people to see us live before we continue on and call ourselves recording artists.

You know, I didn't have enough money to quit my day job... the myth of the major label deal. Nowadays, you have a tour bus and a stylist and all this stuff. But back then, no way.

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

When I was young, I was offered my first recording contract in 1971 and was offered quite a bit of money if I would change my character and be a '70s version of Cher.

I was signed to A&M, I was signed to Lou Adler, who had a company within a company, which was A&M Records, and everything - James Taylor, Rita Coolidge, Carole King - I worked on all of that stuff.

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

In 1994, I started touring again and I recorded two albums for Chesky Jazz.

In those days it was pretty cut and dry. If you had a record company believing in you enough to cut an album then you had better have the ability to work the album on the road.

I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours.

I've always had just enough success to buy me some more tour dates and another record.

It's been over 15 years since I toured... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus.

The 'Daryl's House' thing has made me into a live musician even more than I ever was, and even in the way I record.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.