Top 89 Quotes & Sayings by Butch Trucks
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Last updated on December 25, 2024.
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.
When we started Allman Brothers, Atlantic Records kept telling us there was no way it was going anywhere.
I'm boring as hell. I just sit around and talk philosophy.
A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. But Stony Brook was a place that, from the very first time we went, the chemistry was right. They loved us, and we loved them, and we just kept going back and going back.
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.
After we did the last Allman Brothers Band show, my wife and I just packed up and went to France for pretty much all of 2015, and I just got bored; I got the itch. I wanna play.
Something happens when the music starts, and all that tiredness just goes away. When it's going like that, I'll take on any 20-year-old hot-shot drummer who wants to try me.
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.
The Allman Brothers 1969 to 1971... were all about... jumping off the cliff... Just taking music and being adventurous with it.
There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.
Our approach is more the jazz approach, where you learn to play your instrument as well as you can, develop your craft, and then communicate with each other. That's the focus, not trying to give some message or entertain or have a good light show or whatever.
The music became secondary to being rock stars.
I have the distinction of being the only member of the Allman Brothers who has never missed a single show. I have played every single show the Allman Brothers have ever played.
That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.
When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
There obviously are a hell of a lot of people that love Lady Gaga. But to me, she's been the theatre of the absurd. And the more absurd it is, the bigger she got.
We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
When we started the Allman Brothers, it was all about the music.
Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.
I loathe and detest heavy metal.
I have done nothing my entire life but play music.
I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
Our first album was kind of simple, but it had that fire, that energy that we have to have.
I was going to go back to college and become a math teacher.
There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.
We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.
We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety.
Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.
I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know. And if you like that, then go have a ball, have fun.
Putting together two powerful sets is always difficult. After you really pour it out one night, it's hard to pour it out the next night.
My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.
With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's about making everyone feel better with music.
We did 300 shows in our first two years.
We're a live band. It's what we do best.
Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.
For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.
When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.
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.
We went on to become the No. 1 band in the country for three or four years. And that was probably the worst thing that could have happened to us.
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!
I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.
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.
It wasn't unusual for an Allman Brothers record to cost $300,000.
I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.
As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.
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.
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.
These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.
Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.
I've never thought too much of 'Rolling Stone.' The first thing I'd do is look at about 50 or 60 of the drummers they have ahead of me and go, 'Oh yeah, right!'
A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.
I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.
After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people show up and enjoy it. It leaves you with a very good feeling.
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