Quotes by Billy Gibbons - Page 1

The blues is life itself.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Blues
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Turn on, tune up, rock out.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Rock N Roll
Rocks
Tunes
Rock
Tune
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The band is tight enough. Quit practicing!
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Band
Enough
Quitting
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Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Band
Elements
Good Things
Visual
Element
Good Thing
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Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Causes
Ems
Ugly
Underneath
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It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Battle
Challenges
Real
White
Uphill
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There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Genre
Hard
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It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Character
Important
Unusual
Collect
Sharp
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Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Music
Feelings
Finesse
Sound
Blues
Composed
Sounds
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It doesn't take much to be good, but it takes a lot to be real good.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Be Good
Being Real
Real
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In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Bigger
Radio
Amp
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Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Hurt
Records
Vinyl
Water
Dishwasher
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Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Play
Tree
Want
Barking
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If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Helping
Particular
Take Your Time
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I probably owe as much to Jeff Beck as I do to Son House with connections to the blues.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Connections
House
Son
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Every once in awhile I'll call up Eddie (Van Halen) and ask, Found that fourth chord yet?
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Chords
Found
Guitar
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Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Common
May
Skins
Upstairs
Vary
Certain Things
Colours
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Each guitar has its own character and personality, which can be magnified once the player engages in beatin' it up
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Music
Character
Player
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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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Driven
Process
Song
Songwriting
Enhances
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Ever since I was a little kid and first heard Jimmy Reed's 'Honey, Don't Let Me Go,' the blues has been in my blood.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Kids
Blood
Honey
Jimmy
Little Kid
Littles
Reed
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Most of the reggae awareness is still among music industry people and people who are already into all types of music.
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Awareness
People
Reggae
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My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.
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Mom
My Mom
My Sister
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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 / Musician
Limitless
Long
Long Road
Musical
Rivers
Sea
Turns
Twists
Blues
Flows
Mighty
Potential
River
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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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Home
Method
People
Restaurants
Home Me People
Prepare
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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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Compensation
Film
Matter
Mirrors
Oneself
Seeing
Close
Contemplated
Mirror
Price
Prospect
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ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".
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Play
Reeds
Song
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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.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Digital
Media
Past
Way
Sooner
Later
Seemingly
Vanish
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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.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Groove
Lying
Nervous
People
Speed
White
Gain
Hurry
Lies
Nothin
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Well, everybody faces the fact there really aren't many records stores around to just go and browse. Maybe browse online, yet that tactile feel of flipping through a stack of vinyl remains one of life's simple pleasures.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Faces
Online
Records
Remains
Simple
Stores
Tactile
Vinyl
Browse
Flipping
Stack
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I too once belived in the heavier gauge string as a superior tone source. However, thanks to the graciousness of B.B. King I learned that a lighter-gauge string offers superior playing comfort ... try it, you may like it.
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Kings
Music
Trying
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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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Music
Taught Us
Water
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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? 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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Games
Miles
Muddy
Play
Water
Acoustic
Ahead
Louder
Plug
Waters
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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. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.
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Kings
Dad
Guitar
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A blown-out tube ripped some of the grind from the amplifier, throwing us into a momentary tizzy. The unusual sound led me to play unusually, and the recorded take turned out to be a keeper. Insriration can come from the most unlikely places ... keep your head on and your ears open.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Music
Play
Sound
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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. 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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Art
Believe
Coffee
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Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.
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Amsterdam
London
Way
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My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.
Billy Gibbons / Musician
Music
Believe
Moving Forward
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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. 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 / Musician
Mp3
Radar
Richness
Seems
Vinyl
Good Music People
Accessible
Archaic
Round
Front
Good Reason
Whatnot
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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. 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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Mean
Mp3
Player
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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. After the band loaded in and the curtain opened, we realized there was exactly one paying customer in the audience. 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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Night
Spring
Texas
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