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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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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 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 sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.
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Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?
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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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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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I think we're a working man's band.
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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.
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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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I'm very proud to be from Jacksonville.
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Rich people know how to party, too.
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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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Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus.
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As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them.
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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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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.
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The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.
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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 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'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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All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.