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By AnonymLevon Helm
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Good times don't last long sometimes.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I like walking on the edge.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.
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By AnonymLevon Helm
The sound of the blues, rhythm and blues, country music, is what we lived for, black and white alike. It gave you strength to sit on one of those throbbing Allis-Chalmers tractors all day if you knew you were gonna hear something on the radio or maybe see a show that evening.
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