Johnny Van Zant Quotes

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

In Europe we play big concerts, but in America it's so cool to see all the people - and all the girls.

We have to make a living, sure, but it's about the legacy of Lynyrd Skynyrd and what it stands for, what the fans are all about.

Bullet for My Valentine, we're bros. We've been in the trenches with those guys.

My most favourite gigs that ever happened were solo, before The Monkees ever happened.

My family was all musicians. We jam all the time.

When I play with my band around the U.S.A., the most requested song is 'Peace Frog.'

I know Mick Jagger wouldn't tour without Keith Richards and call it the Rolling Stones.

I had previously been in the band the Modern Lovers with Jonathan Richman.

We may take breaks and do other things, but we feel we'll ultimately have Pearl Jam as a family.

I got fed up with being in bands. I spent a couple of years touring the country in a smoked filled band, doing lots of drugs and being really unhealthy.

I was in a band when I was 15. We were a glam band. Then I couldn't afford to buy makeup. At the time that was the thing.

I'd definitely love to play in Nashville again. That would be really good.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

My brother is the lead singer of The Torn, and my parents are in a country duo.

I just want to live on the road. I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night. If I'm not performing every night, I get totally depressed. I know that sounds really weird, but I hate sitting at home and not having a 1 A.M. performance now. It kills me.

Although there was a point with the Tijuana Brass where we were playing for such huge crowds that I kind of lost contact. At one point, the only connection I had with the audience was with people out there lighting cigarettes.

I'm on stage where Rivers Cuomo from Weezer was standing? It's kind of a mind trip.

If I could ask for any life, I'd like to be the lead singer and guitarist for Willie Nelson & Family. That is to say, Willie.

I still feel very close to the people I wrote shows with and some of the people I toured with. I feel very close to them, like a family or like college friends who you know and who have seen you at your worst and you spend 14 hours driving a van all piled on top of each other.

I love being in a band.

The band I've played with for 10 or 12 years now, we've been all over, but we mostly play in LA.

I was hanging out with Jonathan Richman last night.

I'm wallowing in the whole idea of just being a guy out there with a band, with songs. It's a real enjoyment.