Chris Robinson Quotes

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Different, Perception

• 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?

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thinking, Rock

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Mind, Feel

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything, Music, Commercial

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Interesting, Think

• Being a pop artist or making music like a jingle or something – I don’t do that.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Artist

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Business, Decisions

  Tags in Meet

• I never thought I’d be on the cover of the ‘Atlanta Journal’ unless I killed someone.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Someone, Thought

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Real, Creative

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singing, Fan

• I’m not interested in a persona.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interested

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Together

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Career

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Said

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Funny

  Tags in Fight, Someone

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Done, Different

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Changed, Feel

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Matter, Making

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Love

  Tags in Anything, Kind

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Believe, Reality, Within

Chris Robinson (30)

Birth:	20th December, 1966
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Singer

About

Christopher Mark "Chris" Robinson was born in  Marietta, Georgia. He is an American guitarist and singer. He is the singer of the rock and roll band The Black Crowes. Over the next nine years The Black Crowes went through many lineup changes and released six studio albums. Robinson's first solo recording, "The Red Road", appeared on the soundtrack to the 2002 Goldie Hawn film The Banger Sisters, confirming the singer's turn into softer material. In July 2007, during the Black Crowes Summer Tour, the live album Brothers of a Feather: Live at the Roxy was released. A new album, Warpaint, was released on March 4, 2008. He made a cameo appearance in the final episode of the popular sketch show The Kids in the Hall in 1994.

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