Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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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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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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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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Music is a great healer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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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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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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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
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I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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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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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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We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
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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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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.