Levon Helm Quotes

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• I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you…
• Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
• When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back…
• Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground,…
• If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
• Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
• Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
• I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
• I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
• A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums…
• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
• Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
• Good times don't last long sometimes.
• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
• If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
• When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
• By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of…
• Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
• I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me…
• Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen…

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