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" When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts. "
Dickey Betts
Kid
Back
Construction
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" Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things. "
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" I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time. "
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" My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him. "
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" I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo. "
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" Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion. "
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" Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion. "
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" Everything comes to an end. "
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" People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never. "
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" If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement. "
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" I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs. "
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" I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers. "
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Your
You
" I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player. "
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Call
Myself
Jazz
" Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot. "
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Thoughts
Makeup
Music
" As far as the music goes, I like melody. "
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Far
Goes
Melody
" I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good. "
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Happy
Sky
Blue
" Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment. "
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People
" It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels. "
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People
Working
Together
" In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida. "
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Rock
Playing
Guitar
" I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms. "
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Feel
Like
Most
" I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means. "
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Your
Family
" Ramblin' was in my blood. "
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