It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
BILLY GIBBONSAfter the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
-
-
It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
BILLY GIBBONS -
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
BILLY GIBBONS -
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONS -
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 -
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 -
There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
BILLY GIBBONS -
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 -
After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
BILLY GIBBONS -
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.
BILLY GIBBONS -
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONS -
The blues is life itself.
BILLY GIBBONS -
Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
BILLY GIBBONS -
Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
BILLY GIBBONS -
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 -
The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
BILLY GIBBONS