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" You don't go to some other country and bash our president. "

Johnny Van Zant

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" I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message. "

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" My father was a Democrat. "

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" If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention. "

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" If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it. "

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" When you're dealing with a big amount of money, you should have your own accountant and your own lawyer. "

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" David Allan Coe actually went to jail one time. Some fan cursed Lynyrd Skynyrd, and David Allan Coe kicked his teeth in. He ran and kicked a guy's teeth in for saying something about Lynyrd Skynyrd. "

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" Every redneck's dream is to write a song and have it go on a fishing show. "

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" Skynyrd just hasn't gotten its just due. "

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" When we were kids, we said the Pledge of Allegiance because we were proud of this country, and we said prayer. You know, we thanked the good Lord above. "

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" If people want to own a rifle or something like that for hunting purposes only, I tend to agree with that. But semi-automatic weapons and handguns, that's just unreal. I mean, what good are handguns? "

Johnny Van Zant

" I'm always going to keep my eyes open. "

Johnny Van Zant

" You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is. "

Johnny Van Zant

" There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music. "

Johnny Van Zant

" We go to Europe, and they think we're totally prejudiced 'cause we hang the bars and stripes. But for us, the bars and stripes doesn't mean we want to see anybody in slavery or anything like that. It's just our heritage. To us, the bars and stripes means grits, 'y'all,' and the beauty of the South. There's no prejudice at all in that with us. "

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" We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans. "

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" The last thing we want to do is disappoint the fans. "

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" This is America, and everybody should have a right to say what they want to say. But I think there's a time and a place for it. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us. "

Johnny Van Zant

" I just love going out and playing my brother's songs. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Rich people know how to party, too. "

Johnny Van Zant

" If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too. "

Johnny Van Zant

" On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things. "

Johnny Van Zant

" Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current. "

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" Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock. "

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" If nothing else, we grew up loving the old blues artists and Ray Charles. "

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" It's for the common people, people who have made this great country of ours. That's what the heck I say we always write about. "

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" I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless. "

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" When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to. "

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" I don't think you can erase history. "

Johnny Van Zant