My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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You know, there’s a big lie in this business. The lie is that it’s okay to go out in flames. But that doesn’t do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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 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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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that’s all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
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