The Black Crowes Quotes
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What else do you say to Medlocke, Rossington and Van Zant? We're talking Southern rock royalty. We're talking Lynyrd Skynyrd. The only thing out of my mouth was when and where!
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I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.
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There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic.
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It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.
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I had left the music business and became a conflict journalist. The conflict journalism started for me in the Gulf and the oil spill. When Skynyrd needed a new bass player, they knew me from the Black Crowes.
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If the Pacific took Nauru, it'd wash away one of the strangest and most troubled places on Earth.
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My journalistic heroes are all the guys like Peter Arnett of Vietnam, and my style in journalism is you got to stand there, and you got to see it with your own eyes.
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Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.
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Lead by examples, not words.
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I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.
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I make decisions based on my work, not based on meetings with my business managers, who I don't like to meet.
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In an odd way, it is refreshing to be around people who aren't attention-starved and media-addicted.
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Since the early Nineties it's been very fashionable to say, 'It's all about the music.'
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What I had to learn was, that I'm only responsible for my perception of things. The world's not out to get you. That's not the way it works.
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I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.
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Part of getting older is realizing that you can integrate all these different areas of your life, rather than the adolescent mindset, which for me lasted a long time, which says, 'It's all or nothing.'
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Right now, I've never been more impressed by the new bands that we meet. I may be 10, 20 years older, but we're all on the same page about culture, music and life.
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How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?
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The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.
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In a lot of ways, Nauru is something like a canary in a coal mine: It's a tiny place with more than its share of troubles, most of them the kind that might have been prevented.
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I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.
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My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.
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I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.
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Seriously, American pop culture must be the most predominant force on the planet, next to pollution and poverty.