Quotes from Ronnie Van Zant

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.

We just want to be a band and play good music.

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

Breaking up a hotel room doesn't change anything.

Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

What song is it you want to hear?

We've played in the North and in the South, and it seems like the young people around America just want to feel good now.

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

All Southern groups associate with one another.

We're just Southern people.

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South get their music out.

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.