Levon Helm Quotes
36 Levon Helm quotes:
"Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times."
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"Good times don't last long sometimes."
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"I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear."
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"If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you."
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"My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home."
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"Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian."
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"Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs."
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"I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that."
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"Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it."
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"We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that."
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"You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it."
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"Drums usually seem to tune themselves."
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"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
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"The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums."
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"There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play."
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"Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better."
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"Don't we all want what's best for each other?"
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"Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me."
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"If things are going slow, I'm itchy."
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"If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it."
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