Butch Trucks quote: "Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later."

I look at making a record and being in a recording studio as more of a craft; You have to be so much...
BUTCH TRUCKS

A lot of the cities where we have a strong following, we don't even get to every year anymore. B...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I feel like the Cal Ripkin of rock n' roll.
BUTCH TRUCKS

One that really caught me was Joe Morello. He was the first drummer I ever saw that could do a roll ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't to...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Blues Traveler is hot, and Big Head Todd, the Screamin' Cheetah Wheelies - all of 'em.
BUTCH TRUCKS

There's this new band that just started with us called the Dave Matthews Band. My God! I mean, I...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I loathe and detest heavy metal.
BUTCH TRUCKS

You're playing for yourself. And if you're not playing for yourself, you're an entertain...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Oh, he's magic. Faulkner has opened passages in my brain. You do things you'd never expect.
BUTCH TRUCKS

That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a pla...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Duane lived life right on the edge. If you ever read Goethe's Faust, Duane Allman was very much ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis a...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I love Lucille Ball. But you don't call that Shakespeare. It's just entertainment, you know....
BUTCH TRUCKS

Playing live is really the art form. You're a lot freer, a lot looser. You've got people the...
BUTCH TRUCKS

As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and r...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Back when Napster first came along, I started telling everybody Napster was like shooting yourself i...
BUTCH TRUCKS

We never thought that we would be more than an opening act.
BUTCH TRUCKS

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.
BUTCH TRUCKS

'Enlightened Rogues' we made like the earlier ones: whatever tune came up, whatever directio...
BUTCH TRUCKS

To be honest, I don't listen to much music! I've been so engrossed in it my whole life that ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Once we started headlining at the Fillmore East, we were free to play all night, at least for the se...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I take my laptop with me on the road. When I come home, I log onto AOL, go to the Web site, and answ...
BUTCH TRUCKS

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk abo...
BUTCH TRUCKS

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in t...
BUTCH TRUCKS

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums...
BUTCH TRUCKS

These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredi...
BUTCH TRUCKS

There's nothing - nothing - like the magic of playing music.
BUTCH TRUCKS

With the jam bands I've seen, it's about music, and it's about theory, and it's abou...
BUTCH TRUCKS

After being away from it for so long, it's really nice to go out and have 10- or 15,000 people s...
BUTCH TRUCKS

I like some things other people don't like, and they like stuff I don't like.
BUTCH TRUCKS

A jam means it's not structured - let it go. Let it go here, let it go there.
BUTCH TRUCKS

When you're good-looking, I think you usually don't have to work as hard.
BUTCH TRUCKS

If you look at my body of work, my characters drastically vary, and so I typically don't play th...
TONI TRUCKS

Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in ...
BUTCH HANCOCK

It's not like he's just a defensive guy. He's a strong kid, and I wouldn't be surprised to see him [...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

He came in here from Day 1 really working his hands, and I like that. He's having a good spring, and...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

I don't think he got it all. He hit it good, but I think it missed the barrel. He is just so strong.
BUTCH WYNEGAR

I look for him to have a monster year.
BUTCH WYNEGAR

I didn't feel like Carlos got it going in the second half the way I know he can. I think (the home r...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

I think we all agree that they're all going to be offensive forces. You just see too many good thing...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

I hear he's a prankster. He's that quiet guy that you have to look out for.
BUTCH WYNEGAR

It looks like we have good approaches to get guys on base, then we seem to tense up. I'll talk to th...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

Billy had a tendency to try to pull the ball. He's starting to use the whole field now. He can reall...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

It was amazing to look at the difference in the two spray charts (from Wednesday). That's understand...
BUTCH WYNEGAR

It's my understanding that allegedly she identified somebody. But when was the identification, and w...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

Once these young men are vindicated, I feel that a big apology from the community is in order.
BUTCH WILLIAMS

What happens if the DNA comes back and it's none of these young men? How do you apologize to them? H...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

There's been a rush to judgment on all of these young men prior to any of the evidence coming out.
BUTCH WILLIAMS

It's very important that parents get involved if their children are involved in athletics, band, pep...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

It's something that we don't want to do. I know how that hits the schools. I was a principal for 25-...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

To drive a bus a mile, it costs us more than a dollar. That's a big increase - that's over a 100-per...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

It's just going to devastate us as far as transporting kids. We're not going to cut any routes or do...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

I just felt as though the state needed to go ahead and test him to see if he really understands what...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

I'm sure there are going to be some programs that are going to have to try to cut back on transporta...
BUTCH WILLIAMS

I'm sure they sat in the stands as well as I did and watched Randallstown. Look, I have been followi...
BUTCH WALLER

We'll come up here and give them a battle tomorrow night. I'm sure we are a 20-point underdog again,...
BUTCH WALLER

Strange things can happen up there. Sometimes kids don't play their game. That's my only concern, th...
BUTCH WALLER

We're not changing anything. I learned that years ago. The key always for us is can we stop their in...
BUTCH WALLER

I have no complaints about the way we're playing. And I'm extremely pleased with the progress from o...
BUTCH WALLER

We decided, as a team, that we had to do things right.
BUTCH WADE

We don't label people as starters. We have eight to 10 players and we just play them. We have a nice...
BUTCH WADE

Playoff games are always different than the regular season. You're going to miss more shots and make...
BUTCH WADE

I think we've taken two steps forward this weekend. We played hard and, for the first time all seaso...
BUTCH WADE

We have good guards who are active and can move. That creates easy shots and more shots. You can alw...
BUTCH WADE

I've seen all of the movies. I'm an old-school Bond fan. Sean Connery is our band's favorite Bond. S...
BUTCH VIG

We're a bunch of geeks, ... We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell yo...
BUTCH VIG

We didn't tell the audience that this was a setup, that we were shooting a video, ... It was weird;...
BUTCH VIG

He brought in a great energy and great vibe that had been lacking from our sessions. After he came, ...
BUTCH VIG

We're a bunch of geeks. We're not cool at all. We're the geekiest band out there, let me tell you, s...
BUTCH VIG

That's Shirley, tough and vulnerable. She's the real thing,
BUTCH VIG

We were on tour so we couldn't make it. But we saw the movie in Tucson with a regular audience durin...
BUTCH VIG

We didn't want to reinvent ourselves with the new album. We felt that we had carved our own turf on ...
BUTCH VIG

We're pretty pleased with how it turned out. To Garbage fans, it sounds like a Garbage song. And to ...
BUTCH VIG

The biggest thing to me is that ['Version 2.0'] sounds more like a band and a lot of that has to do ...
BUTCH VIG

It's a tremendous step up. But you'd rather play than not play. Next week (against West Ouachita) is...
BUTCH STOKER

We didn't lay well as a defense, but they had a great game plan. They were coming up with stuff we h...
BUTCH STOKER

The bottom line is you're really not prepared. You just try to stick to the things you do well and h...
BUTCH STOKER

It's not really the kind of game you want to open with. You want a chance to get the kinks out befor...
BUTCH STOKER

I don't think we're going to play Douglass. We can't communicate with them. I know they're not going...
BUTCH STOKER

You get him the ball enough times and he's going to break some. Guys like that come around once ever...
BUTCH STOKER

I hope that's a preview of what we're going to see from him. That's what we expect from him.
BUTCH STOKER

The key would be public input and design elements that incorporate the building into the neighborhoo...
BUTCH SPYRIDON

We have decided not to pursue that, primarily due to space, both convention center and hotel, the nu...
BUTCH SPYRIDON

The museum is great. I can't believe Joe took this on. It is the perfect complement to the flagship ...
BUTCH SPYRIDON

We just want Chris and his family to be able to stay as long as they want without having to worry.
BUTCH SPYRIDON

It's a good product, a good address and there's plenty of demand in that category.
BUTCH SPYRIDON

That '50 Mercury is a pro-built car. To have that kind of talent in the Black Hills is just amazing.
BUTCH ROMEY

If anybody backs out for any reason, we've got cars waiting to fill those spots.
BUTCH ROMEY

It's going to take a day to see all these cars.
BUTCH ROMEY

We've got the entire first floor, every hallway, every nook and cranny including the arena. This is ...
BUTCH ROMEY

That's were we are taken aback.
BUTCH RAMIREZ

It's all clear now and we are happy that this issue has been settled.
BUTCH RAMIREZ

It's a collaborative effort among different government agencies and we'll be discussing the schedule...
BUTCH RAMIREZ

Our immediate plan and one of the very big things for us this year is the launch of the Philippine I...
BUTCH RAMIREZ

We need some big guards.
BUTCH PIERRE

We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him.
BUTCH PIERRE

That was when it kicked in, when they kind of started to understand.
BUTCH PIERRE

It's basically Louisiana kids. If you can sign the top two or three Louisiana kids every year, you s...
BUTCH PIERRE

It's a family type thing.
BUTCH PIERRE

As soon as he crosses mid-court, he's a threat to put one up.
BUTCH PIERRE

He potentially could be as good of an athlete as has ever played sports in this town. And we've had ...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

I've never had a varsity touchdown before and to come out and get two on defense is big. It's good t...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

They came down here two years ago and we had them 8-6 late in the first half. Then within two minute...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

The defense was really playing good football. They are swarming to the ball and improving each week.
BUTCH PEDERSEN

He's supposed to be in a 5-2. Then we yelled 4-3 at the last second. Then he jumps back and plays a ...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

You kind of flood an area and then you get a deep receiver and he was wide open.
BUTCH PEDERSEN

Give them credit, they played very good defense the first half, and then we saw some things we thoug...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

It means we're 3-0. They are a great football team, and it's going to give us some confidence.
BUTCH PEDERSEN

We knew a game was going to come down to a pitch pass sometime. Paul and I would go out in the stree...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

He went to some camps and got some additional technique this summer, and he's really started to blos...
BUTCH PEDERSEN

Hopefully, we got that tweaked enough to where it will be even better (Thursday) morning.
BUTCH MARTIN

We had a little bit of work in the County Road 40 traffic.
BUTCH MARTIN

It was bad. From what I could gather, they were backed up almost to the Missouri line. That?s quite ...
BUTCH MARTIN

Our traffic engineers down there can call up a controller and monitor the operation of that signal f...
BUTCH MARTIN

The only thing I'd like to see us do is be consistent across the Coast. Evacuation of low-lying area...
BUTCH LOPER

This is just precautionary at this time. Due to the unpredictable nature of tropical systems, we wan...
BUTCH LOPER

All the old-timers tell me they've never seen water in the courthouse before. There was 6 feet of wa...
BUTCH LOPER

People don't understand what is meant by storm surge. You're telling them, 'Hey, you need to go.
BUTCH LOPER

I'm worried about every one of the hurricanes that come our way, but I'm afraid there's going to be ...
BUTCH LOPER

The big problem that we will be facing is the possibility of a 10-to-16 foot tidal surge. We are goi...
BUTCH LOPER

And we haven't gotten to the heavily devastated areas yet.
BUTCH LOPER

The way the wall is here, you can't see. As I was leaving the pits, they told me JJ is coming. Leavi...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

It's a fourth place, but it's almost like a win. We got in a huge hole the first day here with probl...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

Tony's the kind of guy who can just show up on race weekend, run four laps and he's ready - his firs...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

The way the wall is here, you can't see. As I was leaving the pits, they told me JJ is coming. Leavi...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

It was a furious race. Everyone was just flat out. It was one of the most furious races I've ever be...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

He wanted to come down and see what it's about. He said he's never been around the road course. Elli...
BUTCH LEITZINGER

He was obviously a genius at creating a quarterback. He could take a kid gangly, tall, short, whate...
BUTCH LAWSON

He chose people he thought would make a difference in the game and challenged them. He taught indivi...
BUTCH LAWSON

He was obviously a genius at creating a quarterback. He could take a kid ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â...
BUTCH LAWSON

He changed the course of Franklin College football history. We won.
BUTCH LAWSON

It's a start for a lot of guys who had good college careers, but didn't have what the scouts were lo...
BUTCH HOBSON

He's feeling better today and hopefully he'll be strong and ready to go by Tuesday.
BUTCH HOBSON

I like the way he goes about his business. He goes right after the hitters and when his breaking bal...
BUTCH HOBSON

It was a good call and they executed it. It was a ball up out over the plate and he was able to get ...
BUTCH HOBSON

(Division-leading Long Island) could very easily be 10 up the way we've been struggling. There are t...
BUTCH HOBSON

Walks were the story for our entire pitching staff today.
BUTCH HOBSON

One thing he taught us was life after football. One thing that I've been doing in Nashua is teaching...
BUTCH HOBSON

Hartmann was great again. His slider and changeup were working for him tonight and he had some great...
BUTCH HOBSON

We had scoring opportunities, but we didn't take advantage of them. We didn't advance runners when w...
BUTCH HOBSON

We really didn't have to fix anything in Tiger's swing. We just had to shape some shots, curve the b...
BUTCH HARMON

[Butch Harmon, who has worked with top players from Greg Norman to Woods, says one of the most commo...
BUTCH HARMON

I have a tremendous amount of confidence in myself, ... People come to me to get better, and I have ...
BUTCH HARMON

My top students all swing differently, ... Adam Scott swings like Tiger Woods, and everybody thought...
BUTCH HARMON

When you're teaching an average golfer, you can experiment a lot more, ... If that doesn't work, try...
BUTCH HARMON

I had heard of Tiger, but I had never seen him play, ... Like everyone else, I was immediately blown...
BUTCH HARMON

Darren Clarke has an 8-wood in his bag because of the availability of being able to get to the green...
BUTCH HARMON

I have told Tiger and his parents when they asked me that I think, physically, his game is at a leve...
BUTCH HARMON

Of all the guys I teach, he's probably the greatest overachiever. Look at what he accomplished befor...
BUTCH HARMON

I don't think any of us ever thought we'd be getting the attention we do now, ... You look at my dad...
BUTCH HARMON

It was not our year. It happens. It was Prosser's day. We kept fighting right up until the last play...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

Liberty was the best team we've seen since Long Beach Poly. We caught them a few times, but we still...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

He told me that they have 27 D1 players on their team right now and after watching film I'd say that...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

Eric Block is as good a quarterback as I've ever had. He'll be a D1 player for sure.
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

They gave us the belly play and we hit it. A couple times we caught them in the right defense.
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

We're a school with 1000 kids. We aren't a private school, we aren't a huge school with open enrollm...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

It's fun. It gives our kids another sense of motivation.
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

His ability to catch the ball and run after the catch will help him at the next level.
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

We've added a passing game this year. We've got two guys who can throw the ball and we've got some g...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

We let the kids enjoy it for a day but then put it to bed. We'll have time to reflect on it after th...
BUTCH GONCHAROFF

We'll have an update probably some time, 12 o'clock on Sunday. Stay tuned.
BUTCH DAVIS

We're not standing down,
BUTCH DAVIS

He's day to day,
BUTCH DAVIS

I truly believe that was one of the great things that helped the University of Miami program achieve...
BUTCH DAVIS

Miami wasn't in a conference at that time. Miami was an independent,
BUTCH DAVIS

The biggest win you have to win is the locker room. ... And it's very difficult when you inherit a f...
BUTCH DAVIS

I don't have enough credentials to be the full-time guy, but I am the assistant offensive line coach...
BUTCH DAVIS

[New Browns receiver Antonio Bryant practiced Wednesday and crammed with receivers coach Fred Graves...
BUTCH DAVIS

I think because they're good players. I think everybody in here has seen Quincy Morgan in two and a ...
BUTCH DAVIS

I think because they're good players, ... I think everybody in here has seen Quincy Morgan in two an...
BUTCH DAVIS

It seems almost an age since I saw any of you.
BUTCH CASSIDY

I don't want to shoot with you Harvey.
BUTCH CASSIDY

All of 'em. What's the matter with those guys?
BUTCH CASSIDY

I couldn't do that. Could you do that? Why can they do it? Who are those guys?
BUTCH CASSIDY

If he'd just pay me what he's paying them to stop me robbing him, I'd stop robbing him.
BUTCH CASSIDY

I swear, if Sweetface told me that I rode out of town ten minutes ago, I'd believe him.
BUTCH CASSIDY

I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.
BUTCH CASSIDY

I do wish I could come and see you all and I intend to if nothing happens to prevent this Summer com...
BUTCH CASSIDY

Don't ever hit your mother with a shovel. It will leave a dull impression on her mind.
BUTCH CASSIDY

Ah, you're wasting you're time. They can't track us over rocks.
BUTCH CASSIDY

I truly believe it's here to stay. I'm proud we were the guinea pig.
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

Miami has been my home since we moved the Nasdaq-100 Open to Key Biscayne in 1987 and I relish the o...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

Andre and the tournament are so interconnected. So it's emotional. It's emotional for him, and the t...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

We're the guinea pig, which we're happy to do. I've got to believe the players are going to love thi...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

Part of the problem they had in negotiating this thing was a lot of players wanted unlimited challen...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

We're a little bit of a guinea pig, but I think that's great. The sport has been hurt by the fact th...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

Anything that's new can go wrong.
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

After 20 years, it's emotional. Andre and the tournament are so interconnected. He helped keep the s...
BUTCH BUCHHOLZ

It's not fun. That's why I threw in the towel at 10 a.m. Saturday morning. But it's all good.
BUTCH BEHN

I don't know why we've got all of these new guys, but they're coming. We're going to have a great, g...
BUTCH BEHN

This is really good. I can't wait to see what happens this weekend. We should have 30 (Limited Late ...
BUTCH BEHN

J.J. Hamilton is coming back. And Beaver Campbell, who won a bunch of championships in the 1990s, wi...
BUTCH BEHN

That always happens. That's free; we don't charge extra for it. Everybody is a little bit rusty, and...
BUTCH BEHN

Dan is going to be very competitive this year. I bet we'll have 22 to 24 cars this year (in Pure Sto...
BUTCH BEHN

It should be a great weekend. We've got lots of cars coming, so I'm figuring it should be good. It's...
BUTCH BEHN

It hasn't worked out. I'm glad I didn't this year, because it just poured all day.
BUTCH BEHN

It's going to be good, except for one little problem: rain. We've got guys coming from all over for ...
BUTCH BEHN

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

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Butch Trucks

Ginger Baker was never my favorite, but he was part of the group Cream that opened the door to what we did. They were the first band to really get into improvisation. They were an absolute necessity to what came later.

Butch Trucks

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