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.
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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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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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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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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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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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