Top 48 Quotes by Levon Helm

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

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.

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

I had throat cancer, and I had to have radiation treatments, and I couldn't sing for a long time; and this was in '97. I had 28 radiation treatments. I didn't die, thank God.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.