Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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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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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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I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living.
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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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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.
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We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town.
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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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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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Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people.
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Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.
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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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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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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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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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Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?
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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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Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.
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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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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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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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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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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.