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Richard Clare Danko (December 29, 1943 – December 10, 1999) was a Canadian musician, bassist, songwriter and singer, best known as a member of The Band.

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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.

Band, Famous, Play, Retirement, Together

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.

Sight, Sing, Singing, Sit, Song

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

Came, Cds, Technology, Waste

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.

Detroit, Maybe, Records, Way

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.

Folks, Lost Love, Love, Place, Play, Safe

I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.

Ink, Recycling, Soybean, Soybeans, Using

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.

Artist, Country, Met, Old, Singer, Uncles

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.

Budget, Getting Older, Life, Mind, Older, Silly

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

Dolphins, Firsts, Life, Payback, Society

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

Catskills, Foothills, Mountain, Mountains

God don't like complaints.

Complaints, God, Like

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.

America, Dream, Follow, Opportunity, Right, Thoughts

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.

Help, Helping, Life, Maybe, Should, Thinking

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

Goal, Ifs, Thinker

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.

Booked, New Year, Night, Port, Spring

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!

Canada, Erie, Growing Up, Kids, Lakes, Polluted

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?

Actually, Inspirational, Make, People, Place, Positive

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