Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it.
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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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I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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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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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 don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
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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'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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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 were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town.
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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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God blessed us with talent.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
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If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
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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 could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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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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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 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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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.
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It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.