When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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 actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour’s extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.
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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’ve put my life back together, but it’s all a growing process and that’s neat, too, because if you stop growing, what good is it musically? So that is what I am looking forward to – growing. In some ways, I felt stagnant in my life and it showed.
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