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" Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men. "

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" I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me. "

" We're about music. We're not about politics. "

" We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious. "

" We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care. "

" I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture. "

" If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago. "

" Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother. "

" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "

" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "

" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "

" It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least. "

" I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that. "

" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "

" Recording should be fun. "

" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "

" You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band. "

" That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music. "

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" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "

" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "

" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "

" It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. "

" As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did. "

" My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that. "

" We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them. "

" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "

" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "

" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "

" Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts. "