Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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Music is a healing tool.
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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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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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I think we're a working man's band.
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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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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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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 didn't grow up rich people.
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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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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 want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.
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If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.
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We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious.
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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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I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.
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I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
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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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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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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'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel.
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I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.
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Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.