Butch Trucks

I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site,…

— Butch Trucks

That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in…

— Butch Trucks

I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.

— Butch Trucks

When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion,…

— Butch Trucks

I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

— Butch Trucks

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.

— Butch Trucks

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

— Butch Trucks

Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping…

— Butch Trucks

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.

— Butch Trucks

We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages,…

— Butch Trucks

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

The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.

— Butch Trucks

A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook…

— Butch Trucks

See, we started out with a foundation of blues. But then we added people like Miles Davis and John Coltrane to the…

— Butch Trucks

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so…

— Butch Trucks

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

I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.

— Butch Trucks

With The Allman Brothers, we made two studio records that were OK, but the first really great album was the live one,…

— Butch Trucks

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.

— Butch Trucks

One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with…

— Butch Trucks

There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys.…

— Butch Trucks

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

There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.

— Butch Trucks

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.

— Butch Trucks

The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.

— Butch Trucks