Quotes by Dickey Betts - Page 1

As far as the music goes, I like melody.
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Melody
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I've learned to climb a tree pretty fast.
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Tree
Climb
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I wouldn't call myself a jazz player or a blues player.
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Blues
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Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.
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Fine
Blues
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You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!
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Mad
Music Heart Your
Play Music
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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.
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Florida
Rock Bands
Central
Toured
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I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.
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Music Feel Like
Effective
Instrumental
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I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.
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Great Memories
Memories
Time Great Memories
Early Days
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Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'
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Likes
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Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.
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Proportion
Blown
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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.
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Ukulele
Banjo
Mandolin
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I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.
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Tea
Acoustic
Cup
Slide
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I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.
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Papers
Printed
Magnified
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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.
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Florida
South Florida
Upper Class
Whites
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People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.
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Entertainment Business
Heat
Never Say Never
Ya
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Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.
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Tunes
Gotta
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My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.
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Daddy
Fiddle
Ukulele
Fiddler
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It's hard for people to understand that when five or six guys are together working intensely, they can really get into some duels.
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Intensely
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I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.
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Tribute
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When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.
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Construction
Florida
Central
Forth
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'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.
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Broken
Critics
Determine
Turns
Remained
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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.
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Quiet
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I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.
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Blue
Blue Sky
Feel Good
Jessica
Scary
Sky
Tunes
Good Man Feel Good
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Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.
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Bad Things
Human Nature
Resentment
Setting
Turns
Outright
Shoulder
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I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.
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Cool
Bluegrass
Chuck
Coltrane
Jerry
Berry
Influenced
John
Lee
Lewis
Rock
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If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.
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Founding
Partners
Settlement
Compensate
Corporation
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Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.
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Uncles
Living Room
Percussion
Me Night Never
Big Event
Entertain
Event
Main Thing
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The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.
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Great Music
Lost
Berry
Original
Brothers
Rest
Seemed
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Anytime I'm playing music or getting ready to record, Duane Allman will enter my thoughts, and so will Berry Oakley. It's part of my musical makeup and mental process when it comes to music. We learned to play together and taught each other a lot.
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Makeup
Anytime
Berry
Enter
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When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.
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Guitar
No Idea
School
Wanted
Asked
Idea
Gonna
Grand
Head
Ole
Opry
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