A biography for Butch Truckshasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it's theater.”
“There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.”
“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.”
“Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without Cream, there is no Allman Brothers.”
“I remember somebody came in with Chicago Transit Authority, and we listened to it one time.”
“There are so many good, young bands out there who aren't getting the attention they deserve.”
“Johnny Winter doesn't know the word 'subtlety.' But it works, it works.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The trouble is that you get fans who tell you you're great no matter how big an idiot you are.”
“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.”
“One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll with one hand. He would turn his hand over and use his fingertips to get the stick bouncing. He could sit there with his right hand doing stuff on the cymbals and tom-toms while he was doing a roll with his left on the snare drum.”
“Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much that kind of figure. His deal with Mephistopheles was to experience everything life has to offer, good and bad.”
“We did 300 shows in our first two years.”
“We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.”
“We're a live band. It's what we do best.”
“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.”
“Listen to John Coltrane. When he plays 'A Love Supreme,' that guy is totally into himself.”
“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!”