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“I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.” quote by Dickey Betts — Download Open image

“I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.”

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I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't…

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'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained…

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When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

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My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played…

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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be…

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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my…

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The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane…

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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

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I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them:…

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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

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