Dickey Betts Quotes

Dickey Betts

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 12, 1943

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

Dickey Betts

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

Dickey Betts

I'm influenced by Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelly, Roland Kirk, John Coltrane, B.B. King, and then by bluegrass. But when I was 16, bluegrass wasn't cool. We was rock n' rollers then: Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis.

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My daddy had been a fiddler, and I heard a lot of fiddle music as a child. I had a ukulele and had played along with him.

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The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.

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All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

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People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.

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Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

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Some people take me as being a rowdy, honky-tonk hero type. Some people see me as a quiet person. I guess I can be either one, you know, at any moment.

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I've written some songs that are pretty scary, but 'Jessica,' 'Ramblin' Man,' and 'Blue Sky' are happy songs. That's the way I wrote them: have-fun tunes to make you feel good.

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Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

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Everything comes to an end.

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I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs.

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I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.

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In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

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When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.

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Ramblin' was in my blood.

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I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

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Our main thing we'd have to entertain us: All my uncles would come over, and we'd sit around the living room on a weekend night, and we'd play. That was a big event for me, getting to play. We never did have any percussion.

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I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

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