89 Quotes by Butch Trucks

My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.

When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.

Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the second set. 'Whipping Post' could get lengthy.

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people there that can give you feedback, and then you can play off of that. There's so much more energy.

People feel entitled to take whatever's online without paying for it.

This is show business, and there's room for the shows and the personalities. But I think there's also room for music, for people to play music, and there seems to be an audience developing that's willing to go listen to music again, rather than just be blown away by drum machines and choreography.

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.