Gary Rossington Quotes
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The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.
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We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.'
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We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.
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For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.
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I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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I just take every day on faith.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.
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It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal.
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We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.