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
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
Now as a musician, if you have it within you, you can create your own reality. Believe me, it’s a novelty. – Chris Robinson
I never thought I’d be on the cover of the ‘Atlanta Journal’ unless I killed someone. – Chris Robinson
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
My music is how I feel, and that’s changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old. – Chris Robinson
Since the early Nineties it’s been very fashionable to say, ‘It’s all about the music.’ – Chris Robinson
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don’t like to meet. – Chris Robinson
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
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
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
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
With time and experience comes a different perception of what’s going on around you. – Chris Robinson
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
