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I loathe and detest heavy metal.
Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
The music became secondary to being rock stars.
I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.
Of all the songs we played, 'Statesboro Blues' was the most ripped-off.
Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.
Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer questions.
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.
There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
After 'Win, Lose or Draw' we were workin' on another album that nobody's ever heard, and it's a good thing nobody heard it.
I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.
With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more careful and play simpler.
Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.
Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.
I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.
We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.
Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what we're doing with Les Brers.
When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.