Dusty Hill

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

“We live for our concerts. We like a live appearance more than anything else about this business and it bothers us when we put so much into it and the critics bomb us.”

“The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we've recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!”

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

“Today, there's so many different types of music out there that it's difficult to keep up. Things do change; it's only natural.”

“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.”

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

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

“They sent us the script of 'Back to the Future III' and we wrote 'Doubleback' for it.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.”

“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.”

“Nothing feels comfortable in rock 'n' roll.”

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

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