black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.

Billy Gibbons

White people get nervous and speed things up. You don’t have to be in a hurry because you ain’t got nothing to gain and you ain’t got nothin’ to lose. And that’s where the groove lies.
BILLY GIBBONS

Lying People White
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
BILLY GIBBONS

Helping Particular Take Time
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONS

Character Important Unusual
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
BILLY GIBBONS

Causes Ems Ugly
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONS

Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS

Blue Itself Life
The rawness and the richness of music on vinyl almost went away, but it still seems to be on a lot of people’s radar, and for good reason.
BILLY GIBBONS

Mean Mp3 Player
Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form – the blues.
BILLY GIBBONS

Blues Country Embracing English Great
It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONS

Challenges Real White
Lightnin’ Hopkins taught us, “the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel” and Muddy Waters taught us “you don’t have to be the best one; just be a good ‘un” .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good ‘un.
BILLY GIBBONS

Faster Mudy Music Taught Water
One springs to mind: one of our very first gigs in a small East Texas town was not well promoted. At least, that was our conclusion.
BILLY GIBBONS

Country Night Promoted Spring Well
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
BILLY GIBBONS

Chords Country Found Guitar People
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
BILLY GIBBONS

Bigger Radio Tabletop
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
BILLY GIBBONS

Amsterdam Country Experiments Way
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
BILLY GIBBONS

Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
It does something different than more accessible means of music playing, like MP3 players and downloads and whatnot. You get in front of these archaic contraptions that go ’round and ’round.
BILLY GIBBONS

Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round

Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billy Gibbons Quotes