I play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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 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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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 use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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