Butch Trucks Quotes
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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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When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
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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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There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
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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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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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I've never thought too much of 'Rolling Stone.' The first thing I'd do is look at about 50 or 60 of the drummers they have ahead of me and go, 'Oh yeah, right!'
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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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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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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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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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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.
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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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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
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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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We did 300 shows in our first two years.
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I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
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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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These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
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You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.
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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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Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.