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" 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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" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "

" 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. "

" Music is a healing tool. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "

Rickey Medlocke

Basketball

Michael Jordan

" 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. "

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

" 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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Recording should be fun. "