A biography for Rickey Medlockehasn’t been written yet.
“You've just gotta go in and write from the heart and write the best material that you can and put it out. If one hits, hey, great. It keeps the legacy going. But you've gotta keep doing new material. It's the future of any band.”
“Here's the deal: You can't go in with the intent that, 'All right, we're gonna write another 'Free Bird' or 'What's Your Name.'' You can't think about it in those terms, because you'll never outdo your history.”
“I think what the public knows as 'Southern rock' will never be repeated.”
“Country has just crossed so many lines now, that Skynyrd falls right into that category.”
“We were working 'Good Teacher' up, and it became apparent to me that, as we were playing it, the song had a Hendrix, 'Crosstown Traffic' vibe and feel to it.”
“We're about music. We're not about politics.”
“As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there.”
“You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.”
“My old man Shorty was a huge figure in my musical life.”
“Lynyrd Skynyrd is not a political band, but you know what? We believe in this country. We have a soft spot for our military. We love the red, white and blue, and every night we dedicate a portion of our show to our fighting men.”
“I was one of the original drummers. What everyone likes to do is think of Lynyrd Skynyrd as the band that picked up again in '73. But I was one of the original members, and I was a big part of that.”
“I gotta tell you, Rickey Medlocke lived in some of the most magical years in this world's history. I lived in the '60s. I lived in the '70s, right into the '80s, and man, it was bad to the bone.”
“Blackfoot was one of the ultimate live bands... there was no pretense, no gimmickry; it was sound, lights, and rock and roll. Our whole goal was to be terrifying... to strike fear and cause havoc in a closing band's minds.”
“When I was 3 years old, I was playing banjo on a country music TV show.”
“We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'”
“I started playing guitar when I was, like, 5, and I picked up playing drums when I was 6 years old.”
“I find that America is moving toward a certain type of government that everybody else is moving away from, and I find that very upsetting to me.”
“Next time you go get bin Laden, don't call it Operation Geronimo, and if anyone wants to stand toe-to-toe with me and talk about it, I'm open, brother.”
“We've always been hardcore rebels.”
“If you really stop to think about it, the last really big guitar hero was Eddie Van Halen, and that was back in the '80s - early '80s, you know what I mean? That's a long time ago.”