Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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I think we're a working man's band.
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Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
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I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.
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Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.
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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 love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
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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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I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that.
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I didn't know if Skynyrd fans were going to throw rocks at me or eggs or what.
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The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.
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I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it.
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On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.
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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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Families do not stop living. We have got to keep going on. This is what people do.
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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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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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Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.
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It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock.
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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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Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.
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'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.
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If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
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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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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.