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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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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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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 be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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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'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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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 think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.
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The fans have always been there for us, and they've realized when we were going through a hard time.
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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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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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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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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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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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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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Music is a healing tool.
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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've always been hardcore rebels.
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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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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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I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.
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We didn't grow up rich people.