Butch Trucks Quotes
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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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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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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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The music became secondary to being rock stars.
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I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
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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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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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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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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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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 was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
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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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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 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.