Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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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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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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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've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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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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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 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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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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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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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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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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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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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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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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.