Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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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.
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Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
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If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?
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Rich people know how to party, too.
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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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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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I'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
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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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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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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That's your end goal anyway, is to make the fans happy.
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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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My father was a Democrat.
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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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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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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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Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.
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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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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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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.