Johnny Van Zant Quotes

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Bands
• Blackberry Smoke
• Black Stone Cherry

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• It's a long road to the Derby, but I think he's got the capabilities to do it, ... He's never done anything that would make us second guess him, and hopefully we can keep on going.

  

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• I'm never aiming to make a movie like someone else's movie, but in order to describe a movie to someone else who hasn't seen it, you usually have to reference things they have seen.

  

  Rob Zombie
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• This is the age of oddities let loose.

  

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• Don't stop me now, I'm having such a good time, I'm having a ball.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
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• We went to all the local radio stations. We even went all the way down to Detroit, into Windsor.

  

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• Jim wanted to be known as a poet, first and foremost.

  

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• I'm optimistic yet disillusioned, hopeful yet frustrated.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Optimistic
  • Frustrated
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• I listen to classical music at home probably more than pop music.

  

  David Gilmour Pink Floyd
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• I'm not a tweeter or a Facebooker or a Grammer. I'm a real grump when it comes to technology. I'm like, come on, just write me a letter.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Technology
  • Facebooker
  • Grump

• Now, the question of the hour is, "Who's got the Pandorica?" Answer: I do. Next question: Who's coming to take it from me? Come on! Look at me! No plan, no back-up, no weapons worth a damn! Oh, and something else, I don't have anything to lose! So, if you're sitting up there in your silly little spaceship with all your silly little guns, and you've got any plans on taking the Pandorica tonight, just remember who's standing in your way! Remember every black day I ever stopped you, and then, and then, do the smart thing: Let somebody else try first.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Smart
  • Gun
  • Silly

• I always loved writing songs - writing for myself and demo-ing songs, really with no intention of ever letting anyone else hear them. Finally the Foo Fighters stuff happened when I just went to the studio down the street from my house and recorded some stuff in about five or six days, and all these people wanted to release it as an album. I wanted to release it on my own, with no photos and no names on it.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Songs
  • Loved
  • Album

• I hate bands that hang around, like, 10 years too long - they're like the drunk at a party you can't get rid of.

  

  Al Jourgensen 1000 Homo DJs
  • Hate
  • Bands
  • Hang Around

• And rock being a male-dominated, testosterone-driven place that I've been in the eye of the hurricane now for several years, I realized that it can be a place that can perpetuate homophobic behavior unless it's addressed by bands like us.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Bands
  • Hurricane
  • Testosterone

• Everything happens for a reason. Like, I kind of hear people go, 'Man, you've been in a lot of bands.' Yes, I have. I've also been married several times, too, and every time I get into something, I think, 'This is the one.' I think that's just human nature.

  

  John Corabi Mötley Crüe
  • Reason
  • Bands
  • Human Nature

• There was never a choice to sing in English or French, that's the thing. We started a band and sang right away in English. You reproduce the thing you like, and most of the bands we liked were coming from England or the U.S. We also came to cherish the fact that there was no one in France singing in English -we were so happy Phoenix to be the first. Even if we are traitors to France, our country, which I'll never understand, because we talk about things that are very French.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • English
  • Understand
  • Choice

• Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • Bands
  • Blackberry Smoke
  • Black Stone Cherry