80 Quotes by Levon Helm

Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.

Good times don't last long sometimes.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

I like walking on the edge.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

Music is the language of heaven.

New York, it was an adult portion. It was an adult dose. So it took a couple of trips to get into it. You just go in the first time and you get your ass kicked and you take off. As soon as it heals up, you come back and you try it again. Eventually, you fall right in love with it.

The power of music just kinda kills all those ills; it cures everything and you’ve got more energy just from the music. And, I’ve never seen it fail. It’s good for ya; real good for ya.