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 GIBBONSI’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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
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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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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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.
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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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The blues is life itself.
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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.
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Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
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Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
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