My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANLots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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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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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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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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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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I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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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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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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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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