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 GIBBONSIn 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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The blues is life itself.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder?
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It’s a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
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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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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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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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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 important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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