Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONSWhite 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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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We kind of made the best of it playing through the first set, took a break and bought him a Coke and then went on to perform for the remainder of the night. It wasn’t exactly a catastrophe but it certainly stands as legendary.
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film… a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
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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.
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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.
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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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I’ve been touted for my guacamole. I’ll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.
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Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won’t vanish, but let’s face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.
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No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in.
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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.
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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The blues is life itself.
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