American - Musician | May 26, 1940 - April 19, 2012
We live in an age of miracles.
Levon Helm
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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
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A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
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Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
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Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
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Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
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I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
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I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
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