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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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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
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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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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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When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
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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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The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
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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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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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