- Ronnie Hawkins: They paid 35000 cash right in front of me for a little ole bit of cocaine. I snorted a couple lines, and I said, "Boys, there's enough flour and sugar in this shit, you'll sneeze biscuits for three fuckin' months after you snort this..."
- Ronnie Hawkins: [chuckles]
- Ronnie Hawkins: ...and they ended up buying another one.
- Bruce Springsteen: This was in the middle of the psychedelic era... . And here come these voices that sound like you've never heard them before -- and they've been around forever and ever.
- Robbie Robertson: Ronnie depended on us to pick musicians with potential. He wanted to have the best band in the land.
- Ronnie Hawkins: Have you ever heard me sing? I BETTER have a good band!
- Bob Dylan: [regarding the disastrous 1966 European tour] They were gallant knights for standing behind me.
- John Simon: Robbie said, I wanna work with Ingmar Bergman. That's not a thing a rock-and-roller would say: I wanna work with Ingmar Bergman.
- Robbie Robertson: [when he visited the dying Levon Helm in the hospital] So I sat with my brother, and I held his hand, and I said: Levon, I'll meet you on the other side.
- Robbie Robertson: [after he played "The Weight" for Dylan] He said, you wrote that? And I could just see the pride in his eyes.