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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANLooking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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 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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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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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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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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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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