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" They're great songs. How many bands wouldn't like to have a 'Freebird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama' to play every night? "

Johnny Van Zant

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" Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic. "

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" I kinda feel that my brother wrote some of the best country lyrics ever - 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew,' 'Mississippi Kid' and that little hit 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

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" I just love going out and playing my brother's songs. "

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" I'm always going to keep my eyes open. "

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" Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy. "

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" I always try to relate a song to something what is going on, the working man, the times, how life goes. "

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

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" If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention. "

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" Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song. "

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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. "

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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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" When we were kids, we said the Pledge of Allegiance because we were proud of this country, and we said prayer. You know, we thanked the good Lord above. "

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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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" We're musicians; we're not politicians or anything. "

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" This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it. "

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

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" I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all. "

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" We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too. "

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" Who knows what the heck the future will bring. "

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" We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings. "

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" I'm a lover of old traditional country - George Jones, Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Marty Roberts. "

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" It is a scary world out there, and believe me that if someone were to try to come into my house, I want to be able to protect myself. "

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" I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music. "

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

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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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" There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music. "

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" Skynyrd just hasn't gotten its just due. "

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" 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. "

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" When you're 17, touring is fun. "

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" We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was. "

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