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" We've always been hardcore rebels. "
Rickey Medlocke
Been
Always
Rebels
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" I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone. "
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" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
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" We're about music. We're not about politics. "
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" As a young man growing up in that era, I was very influenced by Hendrix and took to a wah wah, and I learned how to really use one effectively as Hendrix did. "
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" That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music. "
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" We looked at the Allman Brothers as the fathers of what was to be called Southern rock. In our book, if you didn't like the Allman Brothers, you were sacrilegious. "
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" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "
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" If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago. "
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" We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it. "
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" Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history. "
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Free
You
Think
" My dad was a musician, played on the road and played all of his life. And I grew up in a musical family. I heard it all. I mean, I got accustomed to listening to Roy Acuff and all the old guys. It was really cool for me growing up in a family like that. "
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Life
Family
Road
" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "
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" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "
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Old
Guitar
Years
" We're a blue-collar band. That's how we like to think of ourselves. We come from humble beginnings and still have this attitude of really loving to meet people, shake their hands, and talk with them. "
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People
Loving
Humble
" I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me. "
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" Music is a healing tool. "
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Tool
Healing
Music
" I got nothing against Barack Obama; I just might not like some of his policies and the people he surrounds himself with. "
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People
Against
Got
" We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "
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Free
Home
Sweet
" I don't want to use my platform to speak out against anybody. I'm a rock and roller. I play music for a living. "
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Want
Speak
Rock
" Recording should be fun. "
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Recording
Should
Fun
" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "
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" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "
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Native
American
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" I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that. "
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" It's funny: here I am, a guy who plays in one of the world's biggest classic-rock bands, and to tell you the truth, I listen to classic rock the least. "
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" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "
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" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "
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Long
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" You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band. "
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Legacy
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" We're a working-people's band, and we love America and what she stands for. Also, we love doing shows, whether it's a huge amphitheater or a corn dog fest. We don't care. "
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She
Care
Dog
" Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother. "
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Talk