Gary Rossington Quotes

"We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick."

"It's really weird when we're out of the country, whether we're in Brazil or Greece or some crazy place like France or Germany. When you hear your song on the radio or in a store, and you're in a different country, it's really freaky and surreal."

"We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were."

"For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally."

"As long as the fans keep wanting to hear new records from us every few years, we'll keep making them."

"If Marilyn Manson would write a song that says, 'Do your damn homework,' it would make the world a better place, and it wouldn't hurt him at all. And if he doesn't like it, to hell with him. He can come fight us - by the bicycle racks."

"Through the years, people like the KKK and skinheads kinda kidnapped the Dixie or Southern flag from its tradition and the heritage of the soldiers."

"We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs."

"Keith Moon was the funniest guy around. The stuff he did was insane. He was like somebody straight out of the movies."

"Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff."

"Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know?"

"I've always used the Peavey Mace equipment. I've got a few of them. They're kind of like Marshalls. You know, we used to use Marshalls, but Peaveys just seem to last longer and push the sound better."

"I've got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can't beat that."

"I think that 'God & Guns' turned out a little more 'country' than we wanted it to be."

"We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here."

"We were kinda rebels. From the wrong side of the tracks. Down where we were raised, it was a tough town."

"I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing."

"With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here."

"I'm feeling real good and trying to take care of myself and living healthy. As good as I can feel."

"We didn't have much money when I was younger, so I had to collect Coke bottles and cash them in and get a paper route to afford a guitar. That guitar from Sears came with a case and an amp and everything all in one. It was really cool."

"I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; 'Spoonful' and 'Crossroads,' those are probably the coolest solos."

"Jimi Hendrix's 'Electric Ladyland' and 'All Along the Watchtower,' those solos are just so cool."

"I did get in a car wreck, but we got a good song out of it."

"I've had some heart problems, and I'm on the straight and narrow."

"All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true."

"I don't know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again."

"Everybody's got a right to their own opinion, you know?"

"We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics."

"Man, I love Limp Bizkit, Johnny Lange, many people."

"'Freebird' is an anthem, and 'Simple Man' is a very nice song."