The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANGod it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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, 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 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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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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 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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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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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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 hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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