Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.
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I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.
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If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles.
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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.
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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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The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.
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For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.
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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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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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I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be.
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I just take every day on faith.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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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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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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I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
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Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.
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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
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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.