I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANAll the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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 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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