Chris Robinson Quotes

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Different, Perception

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Real, Everything, Sense

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Learn, Perception

• 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

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Conventional, Deal

• 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, Commercial

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Pure, Essence

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Political, Nothing, Kids

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Singing, About

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Since, Early

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Impressed

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nothing, Different

• 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

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

  Chris Robinson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Matter, Making

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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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