Levon Helm Quotes

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

Music, Good, Fun

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

Fun, Fool, Reward

If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.
Levon Helm

Music, Help, Wrong

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

Job, Friend, Son

Anytime I switch to another instrument, I immediately turn it into another kind of drum so that I can understand it better.
Levon Helm

Understand, Another, Turn

I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
Levon Helm

School, Trying, High

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

Fool, Started, Second

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

Life, Time, Live

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

Good, Hero, Wanted

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

Great, Mom, Dad

Don't we all want what's best for each other?
Levon Helm

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.
Levon Helm

Themselves, Seem, Drums

Forever Young, by Dylan, is one of my favorite songs.
Levon Helm

Young, Forever, Songs

Good times don't last long sometimes.
Levon Helm

Good, Long, Sometimes

I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
Levon Helm

Here, Happens, Within

I like walking on the edge.
Levon Helm

I love horns, and the bigger the band, the better it sounds to my ear.
Levon Helm

Love, Band, Sounds

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

Good, Travel, Country

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

Nice, Band, Played

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.
Levon Helm

Learned, Everybody, Lessons

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.
Levon Helm

If you feel like you're getting into a rut with a song, a night off usually fixes it.
Levon Helm

Night, Off, Song

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
Levon Helm

Good, Heart, Give

Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
Levon Helm

End, Hard, Song

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

Live, Play, Song

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Nationality: American

Born: May 26, 1940

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