Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.
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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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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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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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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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I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.
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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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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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Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country.
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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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Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.
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I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.
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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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Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.
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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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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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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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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.