Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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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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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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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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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 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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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've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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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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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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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.
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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with 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 know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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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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The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.