The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other – our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That’s to help each other, not hurt each other.
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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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You 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.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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 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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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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But between sets I’d sneak over to the black places to hear blues musicians. It got to the point where I was making my living at white clubs and having my fun at the other places.
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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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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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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