Chris Robinson Quotes

• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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• 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.’

  Chris Robinson

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

  Chris Robinson

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• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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

  Chris Robinson

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• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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• 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

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• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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• 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.

  Chris Robinson

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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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