Levon Helm Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I like walking on the edge.”

“Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.”

“Don't we all want what's best for each other?”

“If it doesn't come from your heart, music just doesn't work.”

“The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.”

“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.”

“We live in an age of miracles.”

“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.”

“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.”

“You can either make it come around or you can't. By the time we would be ready to record a song, we would know for sure that it was the best way we could do it.”