Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONSTurn on, tune up, rock out.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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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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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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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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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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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.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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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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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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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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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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