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" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

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" I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here. "

Rickey Medlocke

" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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" We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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" Politics are the same old thing. We elect people, we put them in office, and guess what they do? They sell us out. They sell us down the river, and we pay for it. "

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

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" I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone. "

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" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "

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

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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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" 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. "

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

Rickey Medlocke

" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

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

Rickey Medlocke

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

Rickey Medlocke

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

Rickey Medlocke

" All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe. "

Rickey Medlocke

" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "

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" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

" We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

Rickey Medlocke

" 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. "

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" Recording should be fun. "

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" I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living. "

Rickey Medlocke

" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "

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