Butch Trucks Quotes
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I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
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I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.
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'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever direction it went in, that's the way it went. That's what we'll always do. I think if we ever stop doin' that, we ought to quit.
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When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
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People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.
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I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
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That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
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Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
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After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
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We did 300 shows in our first two years.
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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
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I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
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Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.
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For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
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I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.
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To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.
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Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.