American - Musician | December 4, 1951 -
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.
Gary Rossington
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You go through stuff, and you keep going.
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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.
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You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.
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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.
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With life and grandkids and the whole thing, every day is busy, but I'm so thankful to God that I'm still here.
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We're a rock n' roll band. We're more music and rock n' roll than politics.
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The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.
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Jacksonville back in the 1960s was kind of a redneck town. There were only two or three places where you could play our kind of hard rock - or 'hippie music' as it was called back then. You had to go to Georgia or some place else.
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We wore blue jeans and T-shirts. Our music was our gimmick.
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We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.
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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.
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