Gregg Allman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

When I got out of high school, I thought, I'll take a year or two off and play the clubs, get this out of my system, and then go to med school.
-- Gregg Allman

#School #Years #Play
There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.
-- Gregg Allman

#Music #Song #Writing
I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.
-- Gregg Allman

#Song #Writing #People
It's hard to live your life in color, and tell the truth in black and white.
-- Gregg Allman

#Black And White #Color #Live Your Life
I didn't think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.
-- Gregg Allman

#Thinking #Playing Music #Pay
Yeah, like, when I look back on my life, I just remember back what happened in '74, or something. It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies and all the funerals. That just doesn't come to mind at all. I guess I'm really blessed that way.
-- Gregg Allman

#Real #Blessed #Thinking
In my line of business, there's no better feeling than having a real nice work that you're really satisfied with.
-- Gregg Allman

#Real #Nice #Feelings
I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.
-- Gregg Allman

#Home #School #Pay
You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.
-- Gregg Allman

#Helping
I got tired of playing other people's songs.
-- Gregg Allman

#Song #Tired #People
I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.
-- Gregg Allman

#Fighting #Trying #Bars
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time
-- Gregg Allman

#Song #Real #Guitar
Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer
-- Gregg Allman

#Killers #Puppy
I would like to be remembered as a - somebody who could rock your soul or make your cry with a song. And somebody who's kind, who loved to laugh, and loved his God.
-- Gregg Allman

#Song #Rocks #Laughing
I've come to the conclusion that I'm not supposed to be married.
-- Gregg Allman

#Married #Conclusion #Being Married
As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.
-- Gregg Allman

#People #Dying #Life Is
You couldnt get a job playing in a club unless you played so much Top 40 and so many Beatles songs. I just went into a sort of revolt.
-- Gregg Allman

#Song #Jobs #Clubs
The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.
-- Gregg Allman

#Competition #Band #Incredibles
Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.
-- Gregg Allman

#Brother #Play #Records
I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.
-- Gregg Allman

#Play #Hank Williams #Halls
It seems like only the real good stuff comes to mind. I don't think of all the tragedies...
-- Gregg Allman

#Real #Thinking #Mind

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