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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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 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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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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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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 don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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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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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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