Dickey Betts

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times. ”

I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time. ”

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts. ”

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done. ”

Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment. ”

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why. ”

I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band. ”

Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion. ”

People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never. ”

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement. ”