Quotes from Butch Trucks

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and gave rock n' roll a much more complex structure. It made it possible to play more than three chords.

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.

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.