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" People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country. "
Johnny Van Zant
Rock
You
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" Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can. "
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" We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending. "
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" 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? "
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" If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there. "
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" I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message. "
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" My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck. "
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" 'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs. "
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" I saw B.B. King in concert one time where he had this guy that would bring him out a glass of water and towel to wipe his forehead with. "
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