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" 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. "

Gary Rossington

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Gary Rossington

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" We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were. "

" We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here. "

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

" We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool. "

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

" 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. "

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" You go through stuff, and you keep going. "

Gary Rossington

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" If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us. "

Gary Rossington

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