Music Quotes by Ronnie Van Zant

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

Talk about dues, we paid a damn ton of 'em. So many that if things ever went too smoothly, it would ruin the group.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

— Ronnie Van Zant

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

— Ronnie Van Zant

We made The Who look like church boys on Sunday. We done things only fools'd do.

— Ronnie Van Zant

The Allman Brothers were definitely the group that opened up the door for the Southern groups.

— Ronnie Van Zant

We've played in the North and in the South, and it seems like the young people around America just want to feel good now.

— Ronnie Van Zant

We put our music together, piece by piece, like a jigsaw puzzle.

— Ronnie Van Zant

The best way to hit a man is in his pocket.

— Ronnie Van Zant

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging…

— Ronnie Van Zant

We just dig Southern rock 'n' roll. It hasn't been represented well at all. So, we want to see the people in the South…

— Ronnie Van Zant

“Be a simple kind of man.”

— Ronnie Van Zant