Gregg Allman

“You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.”

“At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time.”

“I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.”

“I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.”

“When I got out of high school, I thought, 'I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.' More than 40 years later, I figure it's finally time to write about this crazy journey that's taken me around the world and back.”

“I've never sat down and tried to write something for some occasion. You just write the tune and stay totally wide open to everything. It'll find the person or persons who are supposed to do it.”

“My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother - I loved him so much.”

“The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.”

“I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.”

“The best advice I got really had nothing to do with singing; it came from my brother, who always told me to stick to my guns and to believe in myself. I think Duane saw my talents and believed in me long before I ever did, and that meant the world to me.”

“When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.”

“When you travel on a bus with guys who love all kinds of music, you get exposed to some great stuff, man.”

“There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.”

“So many people out there can probably sing very good - all they need to do is just drop their inhibitions. That's why most people do their singing in the shower.”

“I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.”

“Pop just didn't have enough substance for me. All this nyah-nyah-nyah, you know, 'Paper Tiger' and 'Hold the Ladder, James' and 'Crimson and Clover.' That wasn't music!”

“I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.”

“I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately, that's never turned out to be the case.”