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 GIBBONSEvery once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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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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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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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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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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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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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