Dickey Betts

Blues players are around for 50 years, and that's just fine.

I have so many great memories of the Allman Brothers early days. It was an incredible time.

Everything comes to an end.

If you've got a corporation, and you throw out one of the founding partners that is responsible in part for making the organization what it is today, you have to compensate that person. You have to come to a settlement.

People say a lot of things in the heat of the moment. But in the entertainment business, ya never say never.

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.

I'm sure you have arguments with your friends, but they don't get printed up and magnified in the papers.

I really feel like I've written my most effective music in the instrumental realms.

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.

As far as the music goes, I like melody.

You can't play music and be mad at anybody. It'll show in your heart!

The thing with Berry and Duane and the rest of us in the original Allman Brothers seemed to be a once-in-a-lifetime thing. When Duane was killed, we knew we lost a great part of that, but we still managed to play some great music.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

Our tunes aren't just sing-along tunes: they're very complex. After a few days of that, you gotta take a break.

I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

My guitar has, like, become part of me, you know.

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

I grew up in South Florida, and my family was pretty poor. We weren't your upper-class whites by any means.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

I don't have to do Gregg Allman songs.

I kind of question whether to say this or not, but it's almost like the Allman Brothers turned into an Allman Brothers tribute band.

In 1969, I was playing guitar in several rock bands that toured central Florida.

When I was a kid, my dad was in construction and used to move the family back and forth between central Florida's east and west coasts.

Ramblin' was in my blood.