Butch Trucks

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. ”

Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works. ”

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s. ”

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. ”

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time. ”

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it. ”

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 we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio. ”

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. ”

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard. ”