I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

Butch Trucks

Categorized in : Going Mouth Keep Shut

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

good-looking think you work

Sometimes you're gonna jump off a cliff and land flat on your face. Then you just get up and go again. But sometimes you dive off the cliff and start soaring with the eagles, and that's when you find new music, places that you've never been before.

face you music sometimes

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

rock i-feel-like feel like

I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!

job play father son

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

being look you play

I loathe and detest heavy metal.

metal loathe heavy-metal heavy

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

never you magic brain

As long as all four of my limbs keep moving and I can still sit up straight and play hard rock and roll for 2 and a half to 3 hours, I'm gonna keep doing it, and I'm gonna do it the way I do it.

rock-and-roll long way moving

These people that dress up in spandex trousers with all the extraordinary makeup - I find it incredibly repulsive, always have.

dress always makeup people

A lot of these guys come up and say, 'Man, you were my influence, the way you thrashed the drums.' They don't seem to understand I was thrashing in order to hear what I was playing. It was anger, not enjoyment - and painful.

you man anger way

That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a place in any kind of hall of fame anywhere, in my opinion.

place rock-and-roll opinion people

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.

door never group band

For a long time, our only mode of travel was an Econoline van. Eleven of us, with nine sleeping in the back on two mattresses.

long-time time long travel

Phil Walden had complete faith in us, and I'll respect him forever for that. I think he sunk about $150,000 in us. He was close to bankruptcy a lot of the time, and Atlantic kept telling him we didn't have a chance.

respect chance faith time

My wife speaks very good French. She said she would miss lots of things in the U.S., but we can't live there if Trump's president.

live things good wife

Donald Trump has been horrendous, saying things are bad because of Muslims or Mexicans. This is exactly what happened in the 1930s in Germany, and it's gonna get worse.

donald-trump saying bad things

We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.

grow great garden vegetables

Majored in staying out of Vietnam.

out staying vietnam

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.

hell music energy fun

That was my first love growing up - classical orchestral music, especially Impressionism.

growing-up first-love music love