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• Robert Hilburn:

  It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went i

• Robert Hilburn:

  I learned how difficult it is to be an artist. There are always compromises. The record company wan

• Robert Hilburn:

  It's a hard thing to be an artist and not give up.

• Robert Hilburn:

  When I began to interview people from the '60s, my first question was always, 'What was your favori

• Robert Hilburn:

  I didn't know if I should tell people that Johnny Cash had an affair with his sister-in-law while h

• Robert Hilburn:

  Johnny Cash was a good man. He tried to live up to his faith. It was just difficult.

• Robert Hilburn:

  As soon as I started working at the 'Los Angeles Times,' people warned me not to get too close to a

• Robert Hilburn:

  Growing up in the icy isolation of Hibbing, Minn., Dylan, who was still Robert Allen Zimmerman then

• Robert Hilburn:

  Some writers sit down every day for two or three hours, at least, to write, whether they are in the

• Robert Hilburn:

  'Walk on the Wild Side' was a very catchy song.