Band Quote by Dusty Hill

When we started, we were from the South and we looked the part. Plus there was sex and violence on our first album. People…

— Caleb Followill

We didn't go for music that sounded like blues, or jazz, or rock, or Led Zeppelin, or Rolling Stones. We didn't want to be…

— Michael Giles

The South just keeps right on playing good time Southern music.

— 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 the South…

— Ronnie Van Zant

There are a number of things that set Southern artists apart from anyone else. Their obsession with place and their obsession with family.

— Sally Mann

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

— Mick Jagger

We were derided as a boy band, with pop music and not really country.

— Jay DeMarcus

So, we went from being an Athens band to being a Georgia band to being a Southern band to being an American band from…

— Michael Stipe

But we're very much an American band and that's that. I think that's part of the appeal outside of this country and it might…

— Michael Stipe

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

We're just Southern people.

— Ronnie Van Zant

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

— Dimebag Darrell