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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANEven 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.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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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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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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