Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.
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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 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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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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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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 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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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.
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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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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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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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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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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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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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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 did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.
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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.