A.T. Robertson Quotes

I really have to feel a sense of freedom in my storytelling.

I try not to think the song to death. The main criteria is if it's working on an emotional level.

By the time I was 13, I was the only one in London, Ontario, who knew how to play rock n' roll.

I'd always thought Cage's 'Root of an Unfocus' would be great in a movie.

Everybody grows in their own way.

Confused by the big city blues, he didn't know who's life he's leading. Put yourself behind the wheel, see if you can get that feel.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

When I was playing with Bob Dylan in, like, 1966, I was, like, 20 years old.

I don't believe it's all for nothing. It's not just written in the sand.

I think, some countries, you have to be dead to have your picture on a stamp.

I haven't been to many music events where somebody was performing and it actually made me cry.

Lord please save his soul, he was the king of rock and roll.

I think the world of Chuck Berry.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

Some music is supposed to be disposable; that's OK. A lot of music is fun for today, but it isn't supposed to be timeless; it's supposed to be trendy.

That whole lifestyle - make a record, do a tour: I know how to do that. It doesn't interest me.

For years after 'The Last Waltz,' I got all kinds of silly movie offers - or, maybe, not silly, but parts that are not my calling lots of offers to play some wonderful boyfriend.

When I was younger, I thought I was too young to really be personal. I thought that what I was feeling and thinking might be half-baked.

I like to work on records when I feel inspired, not because it's expected of me.

There's something so healthy about young people speaking up in unity.

Record making is an extraordinary experience.

Some people love some music, and they hear it a year later and they think, 'What was I thinking?'

I admire those old road dogs, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan. That's their life.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

A Library goes on as far as thought can reach.

I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them.

There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

The result of a single action may spread like the circles that expand when a stone is thrown into a pond, until they touch places and people unguessed at by the person who threw the stone.

The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory.

If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.

Canada has one of the highest rates of insanity in any civilized country and one reason might be that life in many places is so desperately dull.

The Bible takes much of its color from whoever is reading it, and it provides a text to support almost every shade of opinion, however preposterous.