Chris Robinson Quotations

When I think about the real pioneers of the psychedelic movement in a musical sense, not just the culture, everything had a handmade sort of vibe to it. We're inventing our culture as we move along into this.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

I'd like to think that, at the end of the day, you can look at the things that I made as a young person and the things I'll continue to make as I get older and they'll be consistently interesting and soulful things, and if you like them they'll be a part of your dimension, as well.

Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'

Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something - I don't do that.

Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

I'm interested in authentic experience and the essence of that creative place, and where those myths begin and where they become real on any level.

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

No matter what, I'm always interested in making music.

Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it's a novelty.

What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.

We feel that we've offered the right solution. Our company has been in business since 1835, and we realize it's important how we deal with these issues.

Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life.

Our business is expanding rapidly and this additional space will give us the space we need to properly serve our hotel customers throughout the southern United States.

was so creative, and it didn't talk down to children. It treated them with respect, and it helped to bring different styles of animation to a wider audience.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

It weighed exactly what it did when it was fired. There is no evidence that is consistent with this bullet being a ricochet.

I've never caught an elephant before. She had pretty good life on her fastball. It tailed a little bit.

As long as we had the numbers, we weren't going to lose.

The way we're going about things and what we want to do, we feel it has to be a really pure essence of music. That's where you get the most out of it.

There was quite a bit of water everywhere. We just wanted to get as much water as we could, up, so we cold prevent further damage.

I try to get to bed early, eat a good dinner, because you know it's going to be like this for three or four days continually.

It's an exciting and interesting film that is unique in the way it deals with real life in this district.

It was my opportunity to come back this year and get a little overtime.

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.

I'm not doing too good right now. The water's rising pretty fast. I got a hammer and an ax and a crowbar, but I'm holding off on breaking through the roof until the last minute. Tell someone to come get me please. I want to live.

I'm absolutely stunned by the response to the festival's decision to go annual, ... I didn't expect that we'd come close to breaking last year's record of 1,967 submissions, more than any other animation festival in the world.

I'm just glad we were able to get a win for our fans. Our fans have been unbelievable and they've kept coming even though we've been struggling a little bit.

What I had to learn was, that I'm responsible for my perception of things.

I think that some of the best Crowes stuff we did had that spontaneous vibe. Thats something thats always interested me in music. Im not really the kind of person to get too bogged down in the details. I think that takes away from the emotion and the vibe of what youre doing.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

I'm not interested in a persona.

These are films you won't see on Teletoon.