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Rick Danko was a renowned American musician, best known for his role as bass guitarist and backing vocalist in the band The Band. His musical career began in the 1960s, where he co-wrote and performed numerous classic songs with The Band, such as 'The Weight' and 'The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down'. Danko was respected for his unique musical style and deep understanding of music, influencing generations of musicians with his work.

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“God don't like complaints.”

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“As time goes on we get closer to that American Dream of there being a pie cut up and shared. Usually greed and selfishness prevent that and there is always one bad apple in every barrel.”

Dream Cutting Goes On Greed Selfishness Apples American Dream Pie Barrels Time Goes On Bad Apple

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“Getting older, I realize I've had a very fortunate life. I've had a budget that's allowed me to do just about any silly little thing the mind could conjure up, and I'm still alive and here.”

Mind Littles Stills Realizing Alive Silly Budgets Fortunate Little Things Getting Older Silly Little Fortunate Life

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“I like a lot of bass players. I like a lot of tuba players too.”

Player Bass Bass Players Tubas

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“By doing something positive in this world, you're helping people and the future. We're all trying to help the world... make it a better place to live. We're actually still changing the world, aren't we?”

People World Inspirational Trying Stills Helping This World Positive Changing The World Better Place Helping People Places To Live

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“I love to play; a stage is a safe place for me to be. It's not that way for most folks, but I'd be lost without it.”

Way Play Lost Stage Safe Folks Lost Love Safe Places

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“Go with your first thoughts; they're usually your best thoughts. Pay attention, stick to your goals and follow those guidelines. It's all right there if you reach for it, unless you want to punch timeclocks and work for somebody. That's what we liked about America, the land of opportunity. All your dreams can come true.”

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“Paul Butterfield and I had a band together at one point.”

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“My first payback to society in life, was The Dolphin Project.”

Firsts Projects Dolphins Payback

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“I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.”

Ink Recycling Soybeans

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“I'm here in the mountains, in the foothills of the Catskills.”

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“The Band was always famous for its retirements we'd go and play and get a little petty cash together, and then not see each other till it was time to fill our pockets up again.”

Littles Play Together Band Pockets Retirement Cash Petty

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“After convincing myself that was maybe you should at least help out your neighborhood, I really started to think about it later on in life.”

Thinking Should Helping Neighborhood Convincing

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“Then, there was Greenpeace, I remember that when they first started out with the boats in the waters, and the guys in the boats between the whales and the boats that will hunting the whales with spear guns.”

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“He was a 'how' thinker, not an 'if' thinker.”

Ifs Goal Thinker

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“When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!”

Kids Growing Up Growing Lifetime Canada Lakes Cleaning Ontario Lake Erie

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“You put a song on the record or on tape and you stop singing it. You just don't sit around and sing it anymore unless you're performing. That's kind of sad.”

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“Country artists, I met a lot of them when I was five, six years old. I had an uncle who was a country and western singer and I met Lefty Frizzell when I was five or six years old in those shows that would come through Toronto from Nashville.”

Years Country Shows Artist Five Mets Six Western Singers Uncles Toronto Nashville Six Year Olds Lefties Country Artist

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“Also a portion of my sales go directly to Greenpeace.”

Portions Greenpeace

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“I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.”

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“I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.”

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“The pressures, I don't really like to think about the pressures, I like to solve them, you know what I mean. I could sit here and complain about pressures but nobody wants to hear about pressures.”

Thinking Knows Want Mean Pressure Solve Complaining

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“When CD technology first came out, it was just so much waste.”

Firsts Technology Waste Cds

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“When I used to play nightclubs, you had to play Top 40 or favorite oldies that maybe people could relate to.”

People Play Used Relate Nightclubs Oldies

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“When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.”

World Bigs Vision Changing The World

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About the Author

Born: December 29, 1942
Died: December 10, 1999
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 25

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