So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANYour 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.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.
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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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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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While I was sleeping, I had a beautiful dream that all the people of the world got together on the same wavelength and began helping each other.
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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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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’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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