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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Ronnie Van Zant

“Be a simple kind of man.”

— Ronnie Van Zant

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

— Ronnie Van Zant

We just want to be a band and play good music.

— Ronnie Van Zant

The other bands are just as bad, but we go to jail more.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and…

— Ronnie Van Zant

We're kind of like an old dog that ain't housebroke.

— Ronnie Van Zant

If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

— Ronnie Van Zant

This band doesn't owe anything to anybody.

— Ronnie Van Zant

All Southern groups associate with one another.

— Ronnie Van Zant

Breaking up a hotel room doesn't change anything.

— Ronnie Van Zant

What song is it you want to hear?

— Ronnie Van Zant