Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song.
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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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We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.
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Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.
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I just love going out and playing my brother's songs.
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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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We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
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I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.
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My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that.
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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 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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When you're 17, touring is fun.
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We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.
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It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about.
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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.
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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath.
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This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it.
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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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So many artists try to be something that they're not.
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We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool.
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I don't think you can erase history.
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t's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.