Top 48 Quotes by Levon Helm

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

Good times don't last long sometimes.