Gregg Allman Quotes

• You got to be pretty thin to be in the movies, or it helps. I would actually love to do it.

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• 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

• 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

• There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

  Gregg Allman

• The booking agent had the audacity to take 10 percent, so we wound up with about $100 a week apiece.

  Gregg Allman

• The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

  Gregg Allman

• My father was murdered when I was two. Duane, even though he was only a year and 18 days my elder, he became a father figure to me. I would have done anything for my brother – I loved him so much.

  Gregg Allman

• In my line of business, there’s no better feeling than having a real nice work that you’re really satisfied with.

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• I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m not supposed to be married.

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• 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.

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• 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

• 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

• I have been going to the gym instead of the bar, trying to get back down to my fighting weight.

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  I got tired of playing other people’s songs.

   

  Gregg Allman

• I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

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• I didn’t think we would ever make enough money to pay rent by playing music.

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• Gotta take my puppy on the road with me, Killer.

  Gregg Allman

• Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

  Gregg Allman

• 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.

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• 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.

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Gregg Allman (20)

Birth:	8th December, 1947
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lyricist, Musician, Singer

About

Gregory LeNoir "Gregg" Allman was born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA. He is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is best known for performing in the Allman Brothers Band. He and his brother, Duane Allman, developed an interest in music in their teens, and began performing in the Allman Joys in the mid-1960s. In 1967, they relocated to Los Angeles and were renamed the Hour Glass, releasing two albums for Liberty Records. His albums list shown below: Laid Back, The Gregg Allman Tour, I'm No Angel, Just Before the Bullets Fly, Searching for Simplicity, One More Try, No Stranger to the Dark, Low Country Blues, and Back to Macon, GA. He has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. He released an autobiography, My Cross to Bear, in 2012.

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