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

Gary Rossington

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

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

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

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" God blessed us with talent. "

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

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

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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 love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people. "

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

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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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 not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers. "

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

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" Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers. "

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

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

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

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

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