Words matter. These are the best Chris Robinson Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
No matter what, I’m always interested in making music.
I never thought I’d be on the cover of the ‘Atlanta Journal’ unless I killed someone.
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.
Since the early Nineties it’s been very fashionable to say, ‘It’s all about the music.’
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 make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don’t like to meet.
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 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.’
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.
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.
In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.
Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something – I don’t do that.
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.
I’m not interested in a persona.
I’m not a big fan of Robert Plant’s lyrics or his singing.
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.
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.
