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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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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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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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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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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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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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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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 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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You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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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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Music is a healing tool.
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.