I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANThe whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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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.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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’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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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 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.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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You know, there’s a big lie in this business. The lie is that it’s okay to go out in flames. But that doesn’t do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
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