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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Hard heavy Myself Talk
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Change Myself Right Weird
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
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
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Myself Problem Shop Sound
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
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
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!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Better Day Greatness Myself See Teaching Thinking Wait
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

Goodness Herself Human Leaving Life Word
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
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
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 VAUGHAN

Beautiful Beginning Dreams Each Other Help Myself Sleep
Even though there’s reasons to try things that may or may not work, it’s still a real intimate way to finish the song with everybody right there in the band just locked in.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Intimate Lock Reason Work
I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Death Depression Gratitude Myself Thankful
I’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Best Growth Myself Time Try Young
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 play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Different Instrument Myself Need Play
I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Instrument Music Myself
That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Life Live Time
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Help Life Need People Right Way Yourself
Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Leadership Play Rhythm Time Togetherness
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Big Deal Idol Life People Value Walk Yourself
My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Herself Learning Man Yourself
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Instrument Myself Play
I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Children Fine Love Relationship Time Wine
Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Eyes Friendship Front Love Mirror Myself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Brother Each Other Enemy Help See Sister Yourself

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