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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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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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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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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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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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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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Music is a healing tool.
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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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'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'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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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 blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.
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I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with.
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I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.
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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.'
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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.