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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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" 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.' "

Rickey Medlocke

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" You can be hip-hop to the max, but you still know 'Sweet Home Alabama.' "

" 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. "

" I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old. "

" 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. "

" There are only seven chords, and I believe every song has already been written. "

" 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. "

Rickey Medlocke

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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. "

" You have to be as original as possible. It's a tough thing to come up with something totally original. "

" Every band wants to be have a song that is that big, that will pretty much live on forever. I don't know too many new bands that will have a 'Free Bird' that will be around 30 years later. It's become a national anthem of sorts. "

" Michael Jordan was like basketball Jesus. "

Rickey Medlocke

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" I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated. "

" My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Music is a healing tool. "

" Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds. "

" I really believe that with all of what Lynyrd Skynyrd has been through, we can survive just about anything. We've had a load of ups and downs, but we're still here. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there. "

" The fans mean an awful lot to us. They keep us going. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show. "

" I'm Native American, so the racial thing kind of hits home with me. "

" I've got a few great old Marshalls that I use live: '71 and '72 heads and an old combo with 2x12s. "