Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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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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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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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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All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.
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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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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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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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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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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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My father was a Democrat.
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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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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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I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos.
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I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.
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My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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So many artists try to be something that they're not.
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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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Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.
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We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
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Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.