Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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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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My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.
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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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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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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're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them.
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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 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 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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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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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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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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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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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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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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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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t's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.
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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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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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Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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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.
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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.