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" You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people. "
Rickey Medlocke
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" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "
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" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "
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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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" All I can say is we love what we do, and the audience is still there for us. I think what's given us such longevity is that our music may not be fancy, but it touches a nerve with the average Joe. "
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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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" 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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" I often use dropped D or C - I even go all the way down to A. What can be really cool is drop a guitar down there and have the rest of the band continue in standard tuning. It gives it a lot of power and texture. "
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" It's exciting and refreshing to listen to new rock. And I like a lot of it - Filter, Vertical Horizon, Stabbing Westward... I even enjoy some Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock. "
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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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" Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category. "
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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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" 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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" Music is a healing tool. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "
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" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "
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" 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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" 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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" 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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