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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANThe problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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But between sets I’d sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
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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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The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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I play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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 was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I’m finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
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