80 Quotes by Levon 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.

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.

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

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.

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

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

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

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

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