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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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Even though there’s reasons to try things that may or may not work, it’s still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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