All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANThat’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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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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 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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You know, right now, the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all, I thank God I’m alive today, and I mean that. You see, I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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