Butch Trucks Quotes
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We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
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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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People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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'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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The music became secondary to being rock stars.
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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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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.
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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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My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
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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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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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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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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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There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
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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!'