I play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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I’ve put my life back together, but it’s all a growing process and that’s neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to – growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
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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 actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.
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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that’s all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
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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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After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off – and punched back in at the same time. I don’t know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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