Gary Rossington Quotes
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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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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I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.
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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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God blessed us with talent.
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I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better.
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I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.
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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
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I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.
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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.