Quotes by Billy Gibbons

About Billy Gibbons:

William Frederick "Billy" Gibbons is an American musician, producer and actor, best known as the guitarist of the American rock band ZZ Top. He began his career in the Moving Sidewalks, who recorded Flash (1968) and opened four dates for the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Gibbons formed ZZ Top in late 1969 and released ZZ Top's First Album in 1971. The albums that followed, Rio Grande Mud (1972) and Tres Hombres (1973), along with extensive touring, solidified the group's reputation as a hard-rocking power trio. In the 1980s, ZZ Top released their three biggest-selling albums: Eliminator (1983), Afterburner (1985) and Recycler (1990). A wave of music videos for the hit singles "Legs", "Gimme All Your Lovin'", and "Sharp Dressed Man", among others, became mainstays on MTV.
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Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

Billy Gibbons

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.

Billy Gibbons

Having a visual element to your band is a good thing.

Billy Gibbons

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 wha...

Billy Gibbons

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Billy Gibbons

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

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

The blues is life itself.

Billy Gibbons

Can't do it, simply cause underneath 'em is too ugly.

Billy Gibbons

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

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? 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.

Billy Gibbons

Our skin colours may vary, but what's upstairs - there's certain things we've all got in common.

Billy Gibbons

There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get.

Billy Gibbons

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

It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness.

Billy Gibbons

Until you learn to play what you want to hear, you're barking up the wrong tree.

Billy Gibbons

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

Billy Gibbons

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

Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

Billy Gibbons

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Billy Gibbons

Author Bio

  • NameBilly Gibbons
  • DescriptionAmerican musician, actor and car customizer
  • BornDecember 16, 1949
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist