Butch Trucks Quotes
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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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I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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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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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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These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
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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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I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
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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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When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
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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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We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
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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.