80 Quotes by Levon Helm

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

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

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

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

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

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

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.

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.