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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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" We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show. "

Johnny Van Zant

Fans

Just

Show

" I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over. "

" Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles. "

" My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck. "

" You don't go to some other country and bash our president. "

Johnny Van Zant

Some

Country

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

" I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name. "

" Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current. "

" If you're only a fan of the old music, that music's gonna wind up sounding even older. "

" We are not saying that every idiot out there should own a gun - and there should be better background checks on guns. Not everybody should have the right. "

" When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer. "

" In my opinion, the only people who should have handguns are the police. "

" We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us. "

Johnny Van Zant

Things

People

" 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. "

" I actually quit the business. I went and drove a truck for a year and a half. "

" We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans. "

" 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? "

" I'm a Republican myself, though I think there are actually some Democrats in Lynyrd Skynyrd. "

" You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is. "

" Don't sign your publishing away. "

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

" I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid. "

" Skynyrd is a big family. We have argued, fussed, and fought. "

" My father was a Democrat. "

Johnny Van Zant

Democrat

Father

" The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans. "

" So many artists try to be something that they're not. "

" 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. "

Johnny Van Zant

New Things

People

" Johnny Colt is a character, and most people in Lynyrd Skynyrd are characters, so he fits in great with us. He's got an attitude, man, and I love it, and that's what we need. "

" We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about. "

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

Johnny Van Zant

Ray

Nothing