Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Dusty Hill

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Joe Michael "Dusty" Hill was an American musician who was the bassist of the rock band ZZ Top for more than 50 years. He also sang lead and backing vocals, and played keyboards. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of ZZ Top in 2004. After his death, he was replaced by the band's longtime guitar tech Elwood Francis, in line with Hill's wishes.

American - Musician | Born: May 19, 1949

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I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn't take me seriously.

Dusty Hill

I don't know if it was a single-blade or one of those straight-edge razors, but I used to play in bands that were, like, show bands and would play different clubs, and, in those days, I would go to the barber twice a week.

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The women really seemed to like 'Rough Boy.'

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Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

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My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform - I can't recall who it was - and we went out and rented tuxedos because I thought that's what you did in Vegas.

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In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

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We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

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I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

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We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.

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Vegas to me is a place like Hollywood or New York where you can walk around and people recognize you but it's like, hey, that's cool, and then we go on with our lives.

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Through the career, planned or unplanned - usually unplanned - we've taken different turns. And it's culminated in a worldwide following that's pretty substantial.

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Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.

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Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.

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I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.

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We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.

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I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

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Legs' wouldn't be 'Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

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I'm a fan of Las Vegas and always have been, on many levels.

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We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

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Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

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I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

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I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in the bar where we were was doing covers of our songs. I don't think they understood a word they were singing but they did the songs perfectly.

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Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.

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We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.

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I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

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I think life is there for you to grab it and be positive. Just look for the good everywhere.

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I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.

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My major influences were primarily guitar players and bands; I started playing bass by accident.

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When I was younger, I'd listen to a song and take it literally. I'd think, Boy, what a drag. How horrible, he must be really bummin'.

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You know how a dog and his owner start to look alike after a while? Well, that's like me and Billy.

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I was 19 or 20 the last time I shaved.

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If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.

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We wrote 'Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

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People are all the time telling me stories: they named their son after me, or more than likely their dog. Or they got a tattoo.

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Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

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I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

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We were bunched up with Southern bands, and there's nothing wrong with that at all. We just wanted to make it clear we weren't a Southern band.

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When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

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I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

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All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

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Usually we're always working on something with this band a tour, making an album or a video or whatever. I don't have any desire to do anything outside this band, except play a movie part or something.

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No, I never envisioned the band lasting this long. But then again, I cant envision next week, even though I have a schedule.

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I think environment is more important to us than even equipment and the studio.

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We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.

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I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

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A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

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Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented the Lone Wolf Horns, and we learned how to play horns.

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Elvis Presley's Sun stuff - there's an album out in England with just about all those sides on it - you know, the sound of that upright bass slapping away: that's what I like to listen to. That and Richard Pryor, that is.

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We all write the lyrics together, but Frank really shines on 'em pretty good.

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I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about. Then, when they would come over to my house, I'd play them some blues. Their parents wouldn't let them come back. The blues were still called 'race records' back then.

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We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

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You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

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We all like each other. I know people ask us that, and I hate to disappoint them, but we get along great and we enjoy playing with one another, and what can I say? I'm as surprised as anyone else.

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If there are people who admire us and what we do, that's a huge compliment. As long as it doesn't get too crazy.

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We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

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I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

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I love movies and I'm interested in watching how they're made and everything.

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Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band... easy to listen to.

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Even if I were to retire, I wouldn't shave. Everyone I know, including my wife, has never seen me without it.

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Yeah, playing live for me is the essence of what we do.

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