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

Gary Rossington

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

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" We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand. "

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" 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. "

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" Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff. "

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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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" Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good. "

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

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" All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true. "

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" I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos. "

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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. "

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" 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. "

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" I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it. "

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

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

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

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

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" Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people. "

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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. "

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" We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town. "

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

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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. "

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" If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks. "

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

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" We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more. "

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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. "

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" If you can write a song that makes people have emotions and show their feelings, that's a powerful thing and a beautiful thing. "

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

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

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