Johnny Van Zant Quotes

We have a song called 'Skynyrd Nation.' It's just about what our fans are, what they do in getting ready for the show.

Historically, black music has influenced other cultures and other genres and created other genres.

Late 20th century music was a really important thing. It changed the world, and I'm part of that, and now I'm part of the museum that celebrates that.

It means so much being a part of country music and the Opry.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

I've got these die-hard fans on Facebook, and you'd swear they haven't heard anything I've done since 1962, 1963.

I'd say most of the rest of the world are bigger Beatles fans than me. They'd know more of the songs and more of the lyrics - I don't really know that stuff. I just respect them.

Unfortunately, the young generation, who I believe have their own place in the sun like I had mine; but I wish it was possible there were other ways to have them understand this music was here before they came, and the reason that it was here.

But there are rock and roll fans all over this continent and all over the globe, really, and we're just set at marking the planet with Styx music until the day we die.

The music I do and the fans I attract? I got crazy fans.

Lynyrd Skynyrd has always been a bunch of rowdy, crazy people, but we love our fans, and that's what the music is all about: touching them. Touching them touches us.

Hank Junior fans are Skynyrd fans.

Is the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame that important to me? No. Is it something I've aspired towards? No.

The thing about Shaggy's records are those records are very timeless.

In Lynyrd Skynyrd, we always got our recognition.

My fans love everything. You can find my fans at a Drake show; you'll find my fans at Post Malone all the way to Pink. They just love music in general.

I don't care about the word 'pop'. The Beatles were pop; it's just what's popular.

It really is, to see that this kind of music is still so popular.

I think my legacy should be that when I started in show business, there wasn't no such thing as rock n' roll. When I started with 'Tutti Frutti,' that's when rock really started rocking.

In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart of the business district. Schoolchildren, churchgoers, tourists, slackers, conventioneers, tech geeks - everybody, it seems - now congregate around this ponytailed shrine to outlaw country.

I've always said that Pantera fans were the best in the world, and I truly meant that, and I still mean it.

Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.

Every time a new rock singer comes out they don't say, 'Are you the new John Lennon?' Every time a new rapper comes out, it's not, 'Are you the new Dre?' I am never sure why this sort of genre, the categorization is so strong. I have not earned the right to be called the young Sinatra, but give me time.

The reason it has lasted for 30 years is for one reason and one reason only: Classic Rock radio.

I will always love the Clash, because I loved them so much when I was fourteen, and I love how you can start a conversation with almost literally any dude about the Clash.