Lynyrd Skynyrd Quotes
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We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything.
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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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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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Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.
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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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You don't go to some other country and bash our president.
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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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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'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 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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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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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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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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Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show.
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If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.
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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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We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.
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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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To me, making a CD is like writing a book.
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t's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.
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There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written.
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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!