Quotes By 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.

Drums just always sounded like the most fun part of that good music for me.

Well, somebody's got to sing. They won't hire you unless you sing.

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

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.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.

We all love musical architecture; there's no doubt about that.