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" To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one. "

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" I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going. "

Gary Rossington

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" It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal. "

" In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition. "

" I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that. "

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

Gary Rossington

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" Nothing in the past is as important as the future. "

" 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. "

" I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel. "

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

Gary Rossington

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" You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on. "

" Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed. "

" With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here. "

" There's only seven chords, so you got to use the same ones over and over. It's all in what you do with them. "

" Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know? "

" We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad. "

" 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. "

" I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again. "

" I think we're a working man's band. "

" I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be. "

" I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different. "

" Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool. "

" We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick. "

" I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow. "

" 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 want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs. "

" I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better. "

" Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know? "

" We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world. "

Gary Rossington

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" I think people who really want to do something do it. No matter what. And they won't quit until they do it. "

" For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally. "

Gary Rossington

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