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

Gary Rossington

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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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" As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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

Gary Rossington

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

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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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" Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else. "

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

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

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

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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. "

Gary Rossington

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

Gary Rossington

" 'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song. "

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" The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write. "

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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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" Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies. "

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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. "

Gary Rossington

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

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

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

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

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