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" I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message. "

Johnny Van Zant

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" Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on. "

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" Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock. "

" I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had. "

" When you're 17, touring is fun. "

" So many artists try to be something that they're not. "

" Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles. "

" When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer. "

" I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name. "

" We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us. "

" To me, making a CD is like writing a book. "

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" 'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs. "

" My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck. "

" If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns? "

" Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us. "

" We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too. "

" I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd. "

" We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything. "

" Skynyrd just hasn't gotten its just due. "

" A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over. "

" They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night? "

" We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was. "

" I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless. "

" People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country. "

" We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans. "

" We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right. "