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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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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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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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 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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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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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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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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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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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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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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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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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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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God blessed us with talent.
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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.