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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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" 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.' "

Rickey Medlocke

Free

Home

Sweet

" We've always been hardcore rebels. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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

Love

Play

" 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. "

" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "

Rickey Medlocke

Basketball

Michael Jordan

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

" Recording should be fun. "

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

" Music is a healing tool. "

" 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

Song

Good Teacher

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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