Johnny Van Zant Quotes

I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Country Music
• Lynyrd Skynyrd

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• Country music... doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Music
  • Country
  • English

• I'm not really concerned so much with the industry, except in country music, as long as our fans keep coming to the shows and keep buying the records and we keep having success on country radio.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Records
  • Industry
  • Country Music

• I guess, somewhere along the line, when we first came out, somebody thought it was a crime to be young and not wear a cowboy hat and sing country music.

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • Crime
  • Line
  • Country Music

• People would say, 'Why are you guys in country music? You look like you're in the Backstreet Boys.' We took so much heat. We always said, 'It's not about hats and Wrangler Jeans. It's about a state of mind. Country is in our souls.'

  

  Jay DeMarcus Rascal Flatts
  • People
  • Souls
  • Country Music

• I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Believe
  • Survive
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.

  

  Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Band
  • Drummers
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Road
  • Show
  • Member

• We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Pay
  • Tribute
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Legacy
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Music
  • Crazy

• People think it is all about country music, and I know a lot of country music has come out of there, but like Blonde on Blonde by Bob Dillon was recorded there. A lot of great records; R&B records, jazz records. It's a lot of great players and great studios.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • People
  • Players
  • Country Music

• To me, country music is like the blues, but it's something very hip and - I don't want to say commercial - but it's very worldly and good listening.

  

  Etta James
  • Listening
  • Commercial
  • Country Music

• Every time I tried writing my own songs, they would come out very country. I couldn't fight it, and the more I listened to country music, the more I loved it, and it just became very natural.

  

  Hayley Orrantia
  • Natural
  • Country Music
  • Own songs

• Among the lesser effects of quantum theory are gaping holes in old ideas about causality.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Ideas
  • Old
  • Quantum

• All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Men
  • Women
  • Change

• Quality, productivity, and innovation can be significantly increased if companies provide all employees with practical tools for exploiting potential information

  

  William Hunter
  • Quality
  • Risk
  • Innovation

• God changes his appearance every second. Blessed is the man who can recognize him in all his disguises.

  

  Nikos Kazantzakis
  • Blessed
  • Recognize
  • Disguises

• In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. I motivate people, I hope, by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having productive ideas to make others feel involved.

  

  Rupert Murdoch
  • Hope
  • Leadership
  • inspirational

• The real world with its common logic pushes us toward catastrophe. The artists seek in his work to free himself from this weight. Art is being transformed into politics, love into trade, education into an apparatus for stifling the mind. In the midst of such horrors, clearly only the dream within me has life. But how do other people live? -There is color, virginal expression - new, without a cage, without routine, without limit, a bath of sun and light. We must realize that nothing man does is of any value. The trouble is that people want to be paid. Only sick men can be artists. Their suffering pushes them into the accomplishment of deeds which reinvest the world with meaning. The sensitive man or the artist can only be a sick man in our civilized life, so full of lies. To think of art as a profession, how appealing! – Painting is man in the face of his downfall.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Education
  • Artist
  • Politics

• Being a first-round draft pick means nothing to me without my education.

  

  Cardale Jones
  • Education
  • Nothing
  • Draft

• I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Country Music
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd