Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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.
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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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I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I’m finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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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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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’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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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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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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