I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANYou 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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANAll the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANYou 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 VAUGHANThe whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANThe problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI 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!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANWhen I play from my mind I get in trouble.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANSo, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANIt 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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANIf 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.
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANLooking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI’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 actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN