Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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When we are out on the road, running up and down the road playing shows, you have to be not only a member of a band but, especially with Lynyrd Skynyrd, you have to be a part of the Skynyrd nation. You have to be a part of the family.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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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.
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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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 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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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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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 was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.
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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?
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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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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.