Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did.
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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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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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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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I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture.
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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 sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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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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Music is a healing tool.
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We didn't grow up rich people.
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We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.
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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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My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.
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You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.
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Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.
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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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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 think we're a working man's band.
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I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s.
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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
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We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
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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.