Butch Trucks Quotes
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A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
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Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music. The record companies don't pay for us to make records - the bands do.
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See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.
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This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
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Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
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There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
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Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
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Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
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As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
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A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
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A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
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Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
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With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
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We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
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When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
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There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
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When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.