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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. "

Gary Rossington

Place

Song

Crazy

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Alabama

Play

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad. "

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

" 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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Sit

Will

" 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. "

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

" We're not preachers, but we say, 'Let's try and change things.' "

" Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers. "

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People

Tradition

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

Gary Rossington

Guitar

Cool

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

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

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Loved

Young

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

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

" Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. "

" 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. "

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

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You

Going

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

" 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. "

" I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing. "

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Sound

Sing

" I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel. "