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Levon Helm

"My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home."

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"My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home."

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"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

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"My father bought me a little cardboard accordion, and when I was three I got this little machine."

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"My dad was a ham, too. He could sell those women anything. Of all his sons, I was the only one he could trust to sell as well as he could. I was proud of that."

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"My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you."

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"In the original draft I was 27 and Peter was 55 in the script. That's not the same as a guy in his 40s and a dad in the end of his 70s. It's a different point in both our lives."

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"I'm in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on the One-Hit Wonder Wall. I'm still very troubled by the fact that I'm in the hall and my dad isn't."

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"She encouraged any artistic impulse I had, and my father discouraged any artistic impulse I had. They took out their problems with each other on me and my sister."

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"Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along."

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"Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist."
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"Dad and mom would have preferred that I be a doctor, a lawyer, a scientist, or a great humanitarian."
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"If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you."
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"I never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel."
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"If you pour some music on whatever's wrong, it'll sure help out."
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"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."
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