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 VAUGHANGod it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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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I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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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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After I changed the string we picked up right where we left off – and punched back in at the same time. I don’t know if this has ever been done before. The engineer sort of looked at us weird, but we got it on the first take.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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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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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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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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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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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