Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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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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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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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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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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If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older.
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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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We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.
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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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David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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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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Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time.