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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. "
Rickey Medlocke
People
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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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" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "
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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Music is a healing tool. "
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Tool
Healing
Music
" 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. "
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Live
Goal
Rock And Roll
" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
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See
You
People
" 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.' "
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Free
Home
Sweet
" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
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Huge
Old
Old Man
" 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. "
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More
Play
" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "
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Live
Heads
Use
" 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. "
Rickey Medlocke
Guitar
Hero
Know
" I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture. "
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Guitar
Power
Rest
" 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. "
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Know
Song
Band
" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "
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Old
Guitar
Years
" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "
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Like
Basketball
Michael Jordan
" 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. "
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Find
America
Government
" I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here. "
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Survive
Here
Believe
" 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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Family
Road
" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
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Will
Never
Rock
" 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. "
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She
Care
Dog
" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "
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Country
Show
" 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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Young Man
Growing
Man
" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
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Keep
Long
Being There
" 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. "
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Think
Say
" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "
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Sweet
You
Alabama
" We've always been hardcore rebels. "
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Been
Always
Rebels