Words matter. These are the best Dickey Betts Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just… I can do it, you know. But it ain’t my cup of tea.
Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There’s resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.
When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the ‘Grand Ole Opry.’ I just had it in my head that that’s what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.
Now, I’m not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, ‘Oh, you’re the best.’
People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.
If you’ve got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.
Our main thing we’d have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we’d sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we’d play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.
It’s hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.
Anytime I’m playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It’s part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
Everything comes to an end.
I’m sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don’t get printed up and magnified in the papers.
In rock n’ roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don’t know why.
Ramblin’ was in my blood.
Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
I’ve learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
I wouldn’t call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida’s east and west coasts.
You can’t play music and be mad at anybody. It’ll show in your heart!
Blues players are around for 50 years, and that’s just fine.
‘Seven Turns’ was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
I don’t have to do Gregg Allman songs.
