I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANThe problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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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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I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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