Levon Helm Quotes

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• I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like…
• We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had…
• The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
• Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
• Music is the language of heaven.
• The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never…
• I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here…
• You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for…
• New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just…
• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
• I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
• I like walking on the edge.
• The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever…
• Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if…
• I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.
• Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort…
• If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
• My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
• My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
• If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

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