Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.
BILLY GIBBONSThe 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.
More Billy Gibbons Quotes
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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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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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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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If you’re really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp’s foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments.
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Water doesn’t hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you’re fine.
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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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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
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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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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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It’s important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
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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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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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There’s not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
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