Butch Trucks Quotes
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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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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'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
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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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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
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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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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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With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one, 'At Fillmore East.' We were a live band, and it's one of the reasons we were able to stick around for 45 years.
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The music became secondary to being rock stars.
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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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Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
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There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
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I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.
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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.