Levon Helm Quotes - Page 2

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.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

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.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

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.

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.

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.

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.

My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

I like walking on the edge.

The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

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.

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

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.

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.

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.