Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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God blessed us with talent.
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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.
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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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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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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.
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You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.
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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.
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Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.
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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.
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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.
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
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Music is a healing tool.
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There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them.
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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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.