Author: Levon Helm

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With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.

- 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.

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

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.

- Levon Helm

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

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

- Levon Helm

We live in an age of miracles.

We live in an age of miracles.

- Levon Helm

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.

- Levon Helm

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

- 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.

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

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian.

- Levon Helm

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