American - Musician | February 27, 1959 -
Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.
Johnny Van Zant
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I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.
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Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.
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We didn't grow up rich people.
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I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.
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'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.
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I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.
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If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
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We always pay tribute to what the old Lynyrd Skynyrd has done - I'm very proud of that.
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Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.
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My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!
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I don't think you can erase history.
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