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

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

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

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

My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
Levon Helm

The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
Levon Helm

The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
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

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.
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

There were no rules, other than that the song should sound good and be fun to play.
Levon Helm

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

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

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