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
My mother is extraordinary. She understood me and never tried to hold me back.
Cowboys had guitars. And they sang country 'cause they lived in the country.
The previous collections that have been done on The Band were OK,
When you look at that period when Warhol and the Velvets and the Stones were doing things, it was this intersection of art and music. And then it went away.
When I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to meet Buddy Holly. I asked him how he got that big, powerful sound out of his guitar amp. He said, 'I blew a speaker and decided not to get it fixed.'
You don't stumble upon your heritage. It's there, just waiting to be explored and shared.
Boy, do I got some stories to tell.
Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation.
The Beatles tried to do some tours and found it to be completely pointless and became a non-touring band after that, and with very good reason.
There is an extraordinary collaborative spirit when you are learning and growing.
We need to have a taste factor in our life. It isn't about what's popular; it's about what's really good.
The rock concert experience for people was really pretty stupid, you know, at the time. People would go to concerts not with the idea of listening at all.
I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'
You fog the mind, you stir the soul.