Gary Rossington Quotes

You could be Top 5 on iTunes, but for people to buy an album, they've got to have a connection with an artist. Every time I bought someone's album, it was about the connection. I was loving everything, from their raps to their style. I wanted to meet them.

The fans are always wanting new music, and with as much as I love to write, I might as well give them the music while I've got it.

All of the people we admire have extensive catalogs, so what's most exciting about people responding well to the band is allowing us to continue making as many records as we can.

We definitely work hard, and we want to keep our fans engaged... we want to give them new music.

We make music for our fans, and that's what we'll continue to do.

People aren't just listening to my single, but they are listening to the whole album - and that's really encouraging to me because you just never know what's going to happen when you put something out.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

I don't listen to a lot of music; I write more music than I listen to, for sure.

I'll always write music. Whether I release a record, whether I let the public hear it or not, I'm always writing music.

When I feel like every day when I get up I'm writing songs, that's the time to make a record.

Who really needs a new album from me?

We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

I hate the whole 'record your album, do your promo campaign, have a year off to write another album' pattern. As an artist, you should keep creating as much as you possibly can.

It used to be that creative music was most of the music that you heard back in the '30s and '40s, and now it's like 3 percent. So, its kind of a struggle getttin' it out there.

Music's always been a huge part of my life, and my first record came out in 1981.

For us music is mainly part of the entertainment world and is often a luxury.

In this business, things go in waves, and I might make a record every three years. That's enough for me; that satisfies me. And it satisfies the so-called public, because they don't really need a record every year. They don't even want one.

When I buy lots of records, I stop making music - it's detrimental to the creative side. When I'm DJing a lot, it's just basically partying every day.

I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.

As long as the fans keep comin' out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there.

Technology has changed the way we think about music.

I can do whatever I want now. I can drop seven songs in two weeks and fans don't care about whether it's from an album or not. They just care about the music.

I think the recording industry is founded on that principle: to approximate the live experience, to approximate that thing that evaporates as it's happening, disappears as it's happening.