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" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
Rickey Medlocke
Will
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Rock
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" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
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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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" 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. "
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" Recording should be fun. "
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" 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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" 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're about music. We're not about politics. "
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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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" 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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" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "
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" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "
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" 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. "
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" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
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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. "
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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. "
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Free
You
Think
" 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. "
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" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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