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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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" 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. "

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" Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history. "

" 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. "

" Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it. "

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

" Recording should be fun. "

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

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

" Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men. "

" You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band. "

" 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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" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "

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

" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "

" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "

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

" We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious. "

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

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

" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "

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" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "