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" As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did. "

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" Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts. "

Rickey Medlocke

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" If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago. "

" Recording should be fun. "

" It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. "

" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "

" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "

" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "

" 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. "

" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "

" 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. "

" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "

" We're about music. We're not about politics. "

" We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it. "

Rickey Medlocke

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" I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me. "

" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "

" That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music. "

Rickey Medlocke

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" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "

" 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. "

" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "

" All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe. "

" We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

" Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother. "

" I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living. "

" We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care. "

" Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds. "

" We've always been hardcore rebels. "

" Music is a healing tool. "

" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "

" It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least. "