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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. "

Gary Rossington

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" We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights. "

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" We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick. "

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" To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one. "

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" We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more. "

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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 you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing. "

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" We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs. "

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" We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics. "

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" The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it. "

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" We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand. "

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" You go through stuff, and you keep going. "

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" For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally. "

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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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" Nothing in the past is as important as the future. "

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" Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else. "

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" We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad. "

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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 sound like an old bullfrog when I sing. "

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" Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool. "

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" I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be. "

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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 love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos. "

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" Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people. "

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" Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know? "

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