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" In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition. "

Gary Rossington

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" I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that. "

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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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" 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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" We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand. "

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

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" It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal. "

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

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" We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers. "

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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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" Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff. "

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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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" Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know? "

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" As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them. "

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

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" We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were. "

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

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

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

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