Chris Robinson Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

I'm not interested in a persona.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.