Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Johnny Van Zant - Page 2

When you set a goal for yourself, you do what you need to.

If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

My favorite singers in the world have been black singers, and you can go to any church and hear the best singers in the world - and I'm a singer, and I love singing!

'Free Bird' is timeless, 'Sweet Home' is timeless. They're just timeless songs.

If rock & roll is dead and gone, man, I am missing out on it.

John 5 - he's weird. He's a freak. I'm just kidding. He's a great guy.

I was a Skynyrd fan before I was approached to be a part of Skynyrd, and they always ended it with 'Free Bird,' so I've been watching it since I was a kid.

I'm always going to keep my eyes open.

You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.

I've never met a person who doesn't like music, and we may vary in what styles we like, but everybody likes some form of music.

Our newest member is Johnny Colt, who was bass player with The Black Crowes. Colt fits right in with us. He's loony as heck, and so are we. We have a great time and love doing what we do. I hope Johnny is with us for a long, long time. He is quite the guy.

Some of the songs on the radio are really outrageous. I listen to the lyric. If the lyric doesn't make sense, I don't like the song.

I think country music is Lynyrd Skynyrd. I think a lot of the country music is what we do, but I don't think rock & roll is dead at all.

Don't sign your publishing away.

Whatever people want to say, we go out there every night, and we give tribute to the songs that my brother wrote, to Ronnie and Allen Collins and Steve Gaines and Leon Wilkeson and everybody. We pay tribute every night to those people who have gone on.

A lot of groups get dirty deals. They work hard and have to get a job after their career is over.

On our Web site, we have people complaining about us not playing new stuff. But there's so many classic Lynyrd Skynyrd songs, you can't go out and just do a bunch of new things.

I don't think you can erase history.

My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

Nothing was easy for us coming up. But we were rich in family.

Rich people know how to party, too.

If you're going into music, work on your music and do it as well as you can. And look at it as a business. I'm in it to make a living, too.

Look at Montgomery Gentry. If those boys came out in the '70s, they'd be Southern rock.

I think, hey, everybody has a right to change their mind.

We have fans that come up all the time and say, 'This song helped me through this tough time in my life' or whatever. The music helps us through it, too.

I think it's just that Skynyrd songs are timeless.

It's all these young country bucks doing Skynyrd songs, which is pretty cool to us.

Not every song of Lynyrd Skynyrd's was a single, but songs like 'Tuesday's Gone' and 'The Ballad of Curtis Loew' and 'Made in the Shade,' 'I Need You,' people learned those songs from the radio because radio played albums, not just singles.

My father was a Democrat.

I'd rather sit in Jacksonville and do a different kind of work than get messed over.

We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.

I like George W. At a time when this country was hit hard, he stood up for America. He's been the leader of the free world during the hardest time America's ever had.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.

I think people relate to Skynyrd; it's a working class band. They're just songs with messages. To this day, there's never been a song written that didn't have a message.

Look at Gretchen Wilson. If she came out in the '70s she'd be the queen of Southern rock.

We didn't grow up rich people.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been about writing songs and talking to people through them. That's what we do, and that's what we'll keep doing for as long as we can.

Some people would do anything just to get a break; that's where the bad guys get you.

There's nothing like getting out there playing a great show with Skynyrd and seeing people love this music.