Rolling Stone Interview of Robbie Robertson ↑

Poets Coming out of the Woodwork

I learned early on with Bob [Dylan] that the people he hung around with were not musicians. They were poets, like Allen Ginsberg. When we were in Europe, there’d be poets coming out of the woodwork. His writing came directly out of a tremendous poetic influence, a license to write in images that weren’t in the Tin Pan Alley tradition or typically rock & roll, either.

Robbie Robertson, 1972, from Rolling Stone Interview of Robbie Robertson