Gary Rossington Quotes
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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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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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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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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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God blessed us with talent.
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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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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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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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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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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 want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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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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I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.