Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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Music is a healing tool.
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We've always been hardcore rebels.
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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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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're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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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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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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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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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'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd.
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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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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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I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.
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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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We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with.
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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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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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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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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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We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.