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The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.

Levon Helm

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Levon Helm
Age: 71 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 26
Died: 2012
Died: April 19
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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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If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
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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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With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
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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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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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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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I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.
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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 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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My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
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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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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.
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I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.
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