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" If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing. "

Gary Rossington

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" The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it. "

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" Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else. "

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" I think we're a working man's band. "

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" I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going. "

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" I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different. "

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" We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here. "

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" The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write. "

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" We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world. "

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" Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else. "

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" Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool. "

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" Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know? "

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" To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one. "

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" I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow. "

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" We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more. "

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" We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics. "

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" I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it. "

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" You go through stuff, and you keep going. "

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" If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us. "

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" You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on. "

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" 'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song. "

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" All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true. "

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" We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights. "

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" I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos. "

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" I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people. "

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" We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool. "

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" If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks. "

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" For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally. "

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" I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it. "

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" Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies. "

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" I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again. "

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