A biography for Dusty Hillhasn’t been written yet.
“We spend more time on the road and when we cut an album, it'll take us as long as six months.”
“The audience loves us! They buy out all our shows and really enjoy themselves but the press keeps right on bombin' us. We thought at first it was because our music was too Texan, maybe too different for East coast people to relate to. But anyone can relate to bein' drunk or missin' your woman.”
“We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.”
“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.”
“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'.”
“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.”
“I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.”
“If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.”
“We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.”
“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.”
“It was the beginning of our second career. We certainly had a full career - 15 years at it - before it came out, but 'Eliminator' had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us.”
“I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.”
“I was 19 or 20 the last time I shaved.”
“They say you look ten pounds heavier on TV, but it makes your beard look longer.”
“Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.”
“When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.”
“In each city there are different favorites. Whatever we do, we'll come off the stage and somebody will ask how come we didn't do 'Pearl Necklace.' At the next town, it's something else we didn't do that they wanted to hear.”
“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.”
“I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn't take me seriously.”
“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.”