Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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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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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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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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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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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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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'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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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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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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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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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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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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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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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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God blessed us with talent.
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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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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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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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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 sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.