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I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.
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I'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
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Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.
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I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.
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On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.
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Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.
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I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
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You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.
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Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.
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The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time.
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Rich people know how to party, too.
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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
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Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.
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When you're 17, touring is fun.
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t's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.
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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
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This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it.
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It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
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