Rickey Medlocke Quotes
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You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.
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I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.
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When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
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Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.
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I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.
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All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
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As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.
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I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.
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I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me.
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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care.
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You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
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Music is a healing tool.
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It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.
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We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'