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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.
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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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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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 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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Rich people know how to party, too.
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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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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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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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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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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.
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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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I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.
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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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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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We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.
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If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
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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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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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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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