Gary Rossington Quotes
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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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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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God blessed us with talent.
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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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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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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 think we're a working man's band.
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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'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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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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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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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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The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.
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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.