Levon Helm Quotes

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• If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

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  Music, Helping, Ifs

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• If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

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  Music, Work, Heart

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• 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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  Practice, Feet, Giving

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• 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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  Song, Hard Times, Past

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Nov 16, 2014

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• 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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  New York, Couple, Fall

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• 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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  Real, Energy, Failing

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• Music is the language of heaven.

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  Heaven, Language, Music Is

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• If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

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  Song, Heart, Play

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Apr 24, 2014

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• I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

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  Musician, Way

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• 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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  Fun, Rewards, Fool

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Sep 02, 2014

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• Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

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  Fun

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• The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.

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  Important, Groups, Crowds

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• I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

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  Lessons, I've Learned, Genocide

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• 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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  Turkeys, Window, Used

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Dec 30, 2015

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• I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.

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  School, Trying, Grades

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• 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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  Travel, Opportunity, Hands

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• 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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  Growing Up, Couple, Hero

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• 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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  Song, Want, Littles

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• Good times don't last long sometimes.

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  Long, Lasts, Good Times

  FaceBook post by Levon Helm from Oct 21, 2014

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• With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

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  House, Horny, Horns

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• 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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  Pain, Greatness, Voice

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• 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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  Ideas, Suggestions, Records

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• If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

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  Ifs, Itchy

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• I don't think I'm a millionaire, but I'm comfortable.

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  Thinking, Millionaire, Comfortable

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• Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.

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  Kind, Instruments, Turns

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