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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANAll the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.
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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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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’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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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