Butch Trucks Quotes
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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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Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
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It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
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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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'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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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 feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
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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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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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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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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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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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The music became secondary to being rock stars.
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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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These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
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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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Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
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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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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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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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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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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.