black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Gibbons

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?
BILLY GIBBONS

Games Play Water
Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life’s simple pleasures.
BILLY GIBBONS

Browser Flipping Online Pleasures
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

Contraptions Different Mp3 Music Player Round
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

Blues Country Embracing English Great
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 GIBBONS

Country Night Promoted Spring Well
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Media Past Seemingly Way
Lightnin’ Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up.
BILLY GIBBONS

Art Believe Coffee
Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
BILLY GIBBONS

Chords Country Found Guitar People
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Break Catastrophe Music Perform Playing Took
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.
BILLY GIBBONS

Film Matter Mirrors
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 GIBBONS

Lying People White
When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions.
BILLY GIBBONS

Dad Guitar Kings
If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
BILLY GIBBONS

Helping Particular Take Time
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
BILLY GIBBONS

Limitless Long Potential Rivers Sea
In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
BILLY GIBBONS

Bigger Radio Tabletop
Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONS

Driven Process Song

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billy Gibbons Quotes