Southern Rock Quotes

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.

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

I've had the honor of sitting in with the Allmans at their Beacon shows a couple of times, and it just doesn't get better than that.

'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.

My country stuff, it might sound like Hank Williams - that's just the way it is. But I'd rather sound like Hank Williams than Trace Atkins.

I've been a huge Gregg Allman fan since first hearing the Brothers' live 'Fillmore' album.

A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.

I love Kings of Leon.

If there's anybody who knew how to play in a studio, it was Duane Allman.

My favorite bands are Hank Williams Jr. and Led Zeppelin. When it's rock, it's '70s rock, and when it's country, it's '70s country. For me, it's the grit and dirt of music that I love so much.

The Skynyrds and I go back to the '70s and the days and nights at the Hyatt House on Sunset in L.A., aka the Riot House.

I have such an eclectic taste in music. Come to a backyard BBQ at my house, and I will run the gamut from Skynyrd to Sinatra to '90s grunge, rap, R&B, and classic rock. I have issues. If I had to pick one, I love this country artist named Craig Morgan. His music and his songs are so relatable and tell such vivid stories.

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.

I liked Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin and the Eagles. Those were some of my favorites.

Derek Trucks is a real good new artist. He's a young guy.

Alabama is somebody that I have always loved, but I think what is so cool about them - it's amazing, actually - is that even people who aren't enormous fans, you know their music. You know of them; you know what they've done in the music world. I think that really says something about them.

Skynyrd just hasn't gotten its just due.

Skynyrd's not just a band; I think it's a lifestyle. It's iconic.

We wrote 'Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

Two of my favorite bands, Blackberry Smoke and Black Stone Cherry, I just think both of those bands are a good new progressive kind of Southern Rock that's a little different than us but still has a rootsy thing going on.

I kinda feel that my brother wrote some of the best country lyrics ever - 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew,' 'Mississippi Kid' and that little hit 'Sweet Home Alabama.'

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.

Duane Allman was the best guitar player I ever heard who didn't read a note.

Punk rock really influenced me, the basic metal bands, Zeppelin, Stones and Floyd, and Southern rock bands. I think I was pretty well-rounded.