Gary Rossington Quotes
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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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God blessed us with talent.
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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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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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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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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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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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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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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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As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.
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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.
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We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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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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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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I think we're a working man's band.
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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 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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I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
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I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.