Quotes By Levon Helm
Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
Levon Helm
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
Levon Helm
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
Levon Helm
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
We're all dealt with the same hand here, so to speak. I feel like I've had it a lot better than most people. I've had the opportunity to travel and play music all my life.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
The way to do it is to put as much life into the song as I can. You can either get it to breathe or you can't.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm
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.
Levon Helm