My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
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. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Nobody is playing music like this, like the Allman Brothers, and there's still a lot of fans out there, so that's what… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself in the foot because you're stealing music.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun.… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for… — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answer… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel,… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety. — Butch Trucks Copy Share
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it. — Butch Trucks Copy Share
A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the mix and… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much more… — Butch Trucks Copy Share
