Butch Trucks Quotes
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That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
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I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
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We're a live band. It's what we do best.
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My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
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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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Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.
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Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
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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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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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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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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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If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.
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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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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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A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
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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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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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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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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
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When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
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I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
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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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People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.