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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANSo, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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I’ve put my life back together, but it’s all a growing process and that’s neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to – growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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 whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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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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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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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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