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Music is a healing tool.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night?
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd
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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd -
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.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.
Rickey Medlocke Lynyrd Skynyrd