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" 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? "

Johnny Van Zant

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" I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half. "

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" It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us. "

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" David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd. "

" Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood. "

" We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show. "

" I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music. "

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" My father was a Democrat. "

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

" If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention. "

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" Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on. "

" 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 always going to keep my eyes open. "

" Some of the country stuff in the past has been so polished - if you were a guy with a nice pair of jeans, a big belt buckle and nice hat, you were country. "

" As Christians, it's our duty to stand up for what we believe - that's called testifying. "

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" Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy. "

" Who knows what the heck the future will bring. "

" In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police. "

" 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. "

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

" My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We always joke that our road crew will have to wheelchair us up onstage soon because this is what we do. This is what we love to do. This is what God put us on earth to do until the day we take our last breath. "