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" It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself. "

Johnny Van Zant

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" 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. "

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" If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too. "

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" If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there. "

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" I want to be there for the last note of 'Freebird' when that happens. "

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" Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show. "

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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? "

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" My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing! "

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" If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it. "

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" Rich people know how to party, too. "

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" I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all. "

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" I don't think you can erase history. "

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" 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. "

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" We didn't grow up rich people. "

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" On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things. "

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

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

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" I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts. "

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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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" If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles. "

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