I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I’m a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I’m slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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Even though there’s reasons to try things that may or may not work, it’s still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
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I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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I’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other – our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That’s to help each other, not hurt each other.
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Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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I’ve been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it’s happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.
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