Every once in awhile I’ll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
BILLY GIBBONSSooner 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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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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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The blues is life itself.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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Can’t do it, simply cause underneath ’em is too ugly.
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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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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.
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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