Quotes by Butch Trucks

Butch Trucks

American musician

Lived from: 1947 - 2017

Category: Music

Born: 11 may 1947

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  • The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
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  • There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
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  • There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.
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  • There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
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  • There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I like those guys. Plus, Dave Matthews looks just like Forrest Gump.
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  • These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
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  • This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.
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  • To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.
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  • To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that when I drive around in my car, I'll listen to college lectures on philosophy and literature and world history, things like that, to kind of catch up on the college experience I missed.
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  • We all knew that asking another guitar player to step into Duane Allman's shoes would not really be fair to anybody who had a conscience.
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  • We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
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  • We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
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  • We would work up a tune that would make me learn a drum pattern I hadn't played before. In the early stages, the pattern wouldn't just fall into place, and I would start thinking about it. And the more I thought about it, the worse it would get.
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  • We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers.
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  • When I listened to Elvin Jones, man, for the first time I heard a drummer that had all the technique plus emotion, passion, feel, and just - good God!
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  • When I play, I stare at the left hand of whoever is playing lead. And I get to know what people are playing well enough that when they start going somewhere, once they arrive, I'm already there.
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  • When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
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  • When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
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  • When we started, it was so intense: it was like a religion. And when you played with Duane Allman, you either gave it your all or you got out.
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  • When we're playing, when we're really, really going... you're just in the moment. You're not thinking about yesterday, tomorrow, or anything else. The brain gets out of the way. Your body just does what it knows how to do, and it's just... it's like a religion.
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