Top 35 Gary Rossington Quotes

The only reason we used the Confederate flag was just because we were from the South, and we were proud of that.

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

I’ve got two lives. Weekends, I go out and play rock star. Weekdays, I play granddad. You can’t beat that.

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

I sound like an old bullfrog when I sing.

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.

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.

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

We want to challenge Marilyn Manson and the rap people with the bad lyrics to write some positive songs.

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

The first time we ever used the Dixie flag for our backdrop was actually when we went over to Europe in 1970. It looked good, so we all liked it. We never meant any racial things by it.

I love Eric Clapton and what he did with Cream; ‘Spoonful’ and ‘Crossroads,’ those are probably the coolest solos.

I don’t know if anybody will ever be as good as Hendrix again.

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.

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.

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.

I think we’re a working man’s band.

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

For one reason or another, the good God has left me on this planet; surely, I will not sit around and not do what I do naturally.

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.

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.

You go through stuff, and you keep going.

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

Old-school rock bands, and blues bands, too, are kind of a dying breed.

The more wild experiences you have, the better songs you can write.

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

Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the ‘guitar army’ and all this stuff.

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

To see fans singing our songs and loving them and dancing or crying to some of them, it feels like the first time you ever played it. It really gets to you, like day one.

Nothing in the past is as important as the future.

We’re not preachers, but we say, ‘Let’s try and change things.’

We’re a rock n’ roll band. We’re more music and rock n’ roll than politics.

Everybody’s got a right to their own opinion, you know?

All we lived for was playing and being out on the road. That was our dream, and it came true.