Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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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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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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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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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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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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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 keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.
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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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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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Music is a great healer.
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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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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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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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 like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.
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I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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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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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If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks.
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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.