80 Quotes by Levon Helm

You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.

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.

The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.

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

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

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.

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.

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.

I've always thought it was easier for girls to sing harmonies because their voices can go to that higher plane so much more easy than a male voice.