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" I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better. "

Gary Rossington

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

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

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

" God blessed us with talent. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I just take every day on faith. "

" Nothing in the past is as important as the future. "

" 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. "

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

" Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people. "

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

" 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. "

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

" We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town. "

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

" 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. "

" The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them. "