Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.
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I just take every day on faith.
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I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens.
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The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans.
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We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.
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I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
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Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got an attitude, man, and I love it, and that's what we need.
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We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.
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All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe.
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If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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Music is a great healer.
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Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.
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We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was.
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Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies.
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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal.
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As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.
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When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.