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48 quotes by Levon Helm

Mark Lavon "Levon" Helm (May 26, 1940 – April 19, 2012) was an American rock and Americana musician and actor who achieved fame as the drummer and regular lead vocalist for the Band. Helm was known for his deeply soulful, country-accented voice, multi-instrumental ability, and creative drumming style highlighted on many of the Band's recordings, such as "The Weight", "Up on Cripple Creek", and "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down". Helm...
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If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out.

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

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Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

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

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

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

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Good times don't last long sometimes.

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The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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