It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour’s extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANIt is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour’s extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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 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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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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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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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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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