Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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'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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I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts.
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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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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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All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.
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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.
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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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Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.
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Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
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My father was a Democrat.
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If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns?
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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 actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half.
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We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.
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You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original.
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Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers.
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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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I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself.