Johnny Van Zant Quotes
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I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.
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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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Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.
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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 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'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
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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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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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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.
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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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Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
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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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Rich people know how to party, too.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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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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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.
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That's your end goal anyway, is to make the fans happy.
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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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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.