Butch Trucks Quotes

United States, Drummer
May 11, 1947 – January, 24, 2017.

Claude Hudson "Butch" Trucks (May 11, 1947 – January 24, 2017) was an American drummer. He was best known as a founding member of The Allman Brothers Band. He joined the Allman Brothers Band in 1969. Their 1971 live release, At Fillmore East, represented an artistic and commercial breakthrough. The group became one of the most popular bands of the era on the strength of their live performances and several successful albums. Though the band broke up and reformed various times, Trucks remained a constant in their 45-year career.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

Butch Trucks
- Country
- Cool
You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertainer, doing it for the crowd.

Butch Trucks

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.

Butch Trucks
- Time
- Music
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.

Butch Trucks
- Good
- Live
- She
I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.

Butch Trucks
- Rock
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

Butch Trucks
These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.

Butch Trucks
- People
- Up
- Makeup
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.

Butch Trucks
- Music

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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- Great
- Live
- Band
The music became secondary to being rock stars.

Butch Trucks
- Music
- Rock
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.

Butch Trucks
- Together
- Night
- Powerful
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.

Butch Trucks
- Player
- Shoes
I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.

Butch Trucks
- College
- Teacher
- Math
There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.

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- Good
- Attention

When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.

Butch Trucks
- Great
- Technology
- Band
I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

Butch Trucks
Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

Butch Trucks