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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.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Drive Front Hands Right Serious Yourself
That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Life Live Time
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Feeling Growth Life Music Myself Togetherness
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Death Example Growth Myself Unfortunate
All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Different Feeling Personality
Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Leadership Play Rhythm Time Togetherness
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Business Flame Lying Thinking Wrong Yourself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Black Live Myself Place White
I’ve been trying to grow up some myself, in my heart, and it’s happening quick and I feel good about it, and I want that to come out in the music.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Goodness Growth Music Myself Try
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Myself Problem Shop Sound
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Instrument Music Myself
I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Break Myself Play Prison
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Alive Important Life Thankful Thinking Yourself
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Instrument Myself Play
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Guitar Hands Hold Sound Way Yourself
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Myself Neck Play Time Way

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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