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Most of our stuff was trial and error. You live with a tape recorder, you turn it on, you play the song and you listen to it.
— Levon Helm
Most of us have a soundtrack running in the background of our lives. I access that soundtrack when I write.
— Robin M. Helm
You got to pick one - pay your medical bills or pay the mortgage. Most people can't do both, and I'm no different.
— Levon Helm
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.
— Levon Helm
It's maddening; he's like an obnoxious seven-year-old that someone has installed at the helm of a vast international conspiracy.
— Ben H. Winters
He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.
— Eddie Griffin
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son.
— Levon Helm
Keep your hand on the helm.
— Matthew Goldman
If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.
— Levon Helm
The Jungle Bush Beaters didn't last too long as a group, but we had a pretty good time while we did.
— Levon Helm
My job is defending the people and to hell with the laws. Your job is defending the laws and to hell with the people.
— Donald Hamilton
When I was younger, I used to drive up to a bunch of turkeys, roll down the window and say something. They'd all gobble back at once.
— Levon Helm
In fact, Harold had never once paid attention to his watch other than to find out the time. And, honestly, it drove his watch crazy.
— Zach Helm
The Band never really played big concert tours. We never sold millions and millions of albums.
— Levon Helm
This is the first time Denmark has ever reached the World Cup finals, so this is the most significant moment in Danish history.
— John Helm
The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.
— Henry Adams
She was a wind on the ocean. She moved men, but the helm determined the port.
— Zora Neale Hurston
It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.
— Sarah Palin
I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
— Laura Dekker
With horns and a full rhythm section, the drums always looked like the best seat in the house.
— Levon Helm
Wouldn't a sailor laugh at you if you told him that the whole crossing depends on the first turn of the helm?
— Emile Chartier
I was in high school, trying to get out of high school. The only thing slowing me up was grades.
— Levon Helm
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
— Publilius Syrus
When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
— Levon Helm
Ensconced in our finite spaces,
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs. — Taranum
We think we are at the helm of justice:
Degrading people's minutest of affairs. — Taranum
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.
— Levon Helm
Where now the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? Where is the helm and the hauberk, and the bright hair flowing?
— J.R.R. Tolkien
By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.
— Levon Helm
Maybe the greatness we heard in [Richard Manuel]'s voice, that catch in it, came from all that pain. To this day, we don't really know.
— Levon Helm
Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.
— Joseph Barbera
I played some Yamaha drums that I like a lot. And I like the Yamaha people a lot too. They've been really nice to me and The Band.
— Levon Helm
To port the helm carries the head to port.
— Douglas Frazar
When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.
— Joni Mitchell
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.
— Levon Helm
It is vain to say that enlightened statesmen will always be able to adjust their interests. Enlightened men will not always be at the helm.
— James Madison
I like to get within handshaking distance of the crowd. If it happens, they know it, we know it, and that's all we came here for.
— Levon Helm
Chaos and barbarism, which always threatened to overwhelm the movement, sharply increased as bin Laden took the helm.
— Lawrence Wright
A sword's a sword, a helm's a helm, and if you reach in the fire you get burned, no matter who you're serving.
— George R R Martin
As rowdy as the place was, I've seen rowdier times playing fraternity parties in Oklahoma.
— Levon Helm
Lord, when the song wants to pick up and go a little faster towards the end, it's hard for me to resist.
— Levon Helm