I’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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 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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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Your 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.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that’s all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
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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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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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You 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.
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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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