Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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Music is a healing tool.
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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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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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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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We didn't grow up rich people.
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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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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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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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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.