Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.
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Nothing in the past is as important as the future.
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Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.
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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 know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.
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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'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.
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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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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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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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I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.
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God blessed us with talent.
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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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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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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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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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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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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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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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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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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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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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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd.