Quotes from Gary Rossington

We keep our music simple, no big gimmicks. We tell stories people can relate to, not hard to understand.

We know what the Dixie flag represents and its heritage; the Civil War was fought over States rights.

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.

Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

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

I could write a dozen different songs with the same three or four chords, but they'd all be entirely different.

I've always heard that the reason you fall is to get back up and keep going. So when that happens, or life throws you bad breaks or curves or deals you the wrong hand, all I've ever known is to keep going.

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

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.

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

We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.

You go through stuff, and you keep going.

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

Our redneck reputation back then was originally just because we had long hair. Back in the '60s and the early '70s, in the South that was kind of a no-no. At all the Army and Navy bases we'd play, we would get into fights with the soldiers over our hair. But I think our music overshadowed everything else.

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

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

We loved Neil Young and all the music he's given the world.

We travel all over the world, and it seems like the South is the place where the people are nicest and they think of the fellow man more.

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

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.

We're not really for anything but a better America, a stronger country. And we do support our soldiers.

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

Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.

If we do not play 'Alabama,' our fans would kill us.