Dickey Betts Quotes
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When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.
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Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.
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Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.
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All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.
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If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
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'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
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Duane Allman didn't see himself as the bandleader .. he led by example, and you gained a lot of respect from Duane if you earned it, if you proved you could keep up with him. If you couldn't, you'd either end up in awe of him or you might not even like him. He was very different from Jerry Garcia (guitar/leader of the Grateful Dead) who was very easy going. Duane didn't have time to be easy going ... there was much more urgency to his personality.
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
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I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.
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I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
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Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'
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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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Ramblin' was in my blood.
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I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.
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When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.
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People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.
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As far as the music goes, I like melody.