Johnny Van Zant Quotes

They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd

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• I am a forthright defender of the right to bear arms - which is guaranteed not only by the U.S. Constitution, but by the Constitution of Arizona.

  

  Doug Ducey

• The autobiographical self has prompted extended memory, reasoning, imagination, creativity and language. And out of that came the instruments of culture - religions, justice, trade, the arts, science, technology.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Technology

• The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Heart
  • Arguments
  • Logic Of Mind

• A strange thing, the human heart in general, and woman's heart in particular.

  

  Mikhail Lermontov
  • Woman
  • Thing
  • Human Heart

• I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Three
  • Beats
  • Decided

• My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Father
  • Musician
  • Cry

• What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And during that time what happens is that I can then fit things on to it, it all fits and glues together. Sometimes it's crazy cos it can almost be anything. But if you catch the cold then the nonsense makes sense. It's like you're getting beamed it, like with a ouija board and something's pushing your hand. It's not a pleasant experience necessarily.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Sometimes

• I said the same things to Axl [Rose] that everyone said to me when me and Joe Perry were fighting.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Fighting
  • Said
  • Rose

• Bring the brothers home, and sisters home now. Legalize marijuana and take all that money and invest it in teachers and in education. You will see a transformation in America.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Home
  • America
  • Education

• Well, I'm working all the time to stay out of trouble!

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Trouble
  • Wells

• We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
  • Film
  • Sounds
  • Mix

• Lots of bands spend years and years before they hit it. For us it was overnight. It was two years - three at the most - from when the band started playing; and it wasn't like we worked so hard. It was a fun thing to do.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Fun
  • Years
  • Playing

• I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Life
  • Bands
  • Documentaries

• It's interesting, there are a lot of similarities with being in the music business or being in a band, where a lot of it is business work you've gotta do, like emails. It's weird, I don't feel like I'm in charge.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Work
  • Business
  • Bands

• In these times, in this harsh, rude, warring world that we live in, where most of the bloodshed is 'My god is greater than your god,' and we're fighting in the name of our god, we have to find a way to peaceably coexist, spiritually.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Bands
  • Freebird
  • Sweet Home Alabama