Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader,… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
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… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
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… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
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… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them:… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers. — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
