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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
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Levon Helm
Age: 71 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: April 19
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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.
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If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
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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.
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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.
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Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
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My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.
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I don't hear record companies coming up with any good ideas or suggestions. Historically, if it ain't their idea, it ain't no good, so you got that to contend with.
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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.
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I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
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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.
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The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
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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.
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The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
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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.
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Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
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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.
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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.
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Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.
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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.
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