Gary Rossington Quotes
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
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God blessed us with talent.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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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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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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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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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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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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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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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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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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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 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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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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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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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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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.
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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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As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.