Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
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My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.
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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.
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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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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People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.
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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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They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?
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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me.
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I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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Music is a healing tool.
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We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
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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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Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.
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To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.
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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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If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?