Levon Helm Quotes

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

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• 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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• 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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• I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

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• I like walking on the edge.

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• I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that’s all we came here for.

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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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• Good times don’t last long sometimes.

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• Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

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• Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

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

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• Don’t we all want what’s best for each other?

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• Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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Levon Helm (37)

Birth:	26th May, 1940
Death:	19th April, 2012
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Drummer, Lyricist, Producer

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