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Good times don't last long sometimes.
Levon Helm
If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Levon Helm
The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
Levon Helm
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
Levon Helm
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm
Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
Levon Helm
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
Levon Helm
I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
Levon Helm
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
Levon Helm
If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.
Levon Helm
The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.
Levon Helm
Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.
Levon Helm
I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
Levon Helm
Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
Levon Helm
Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
I like walking on the edge.
Levon Helm
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