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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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

Myself Problem Shop Sound
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
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
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
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
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 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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Different Guitar Instrument Kind Myself Sound Versatile
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
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 use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Hard heavy Myself Talk
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
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
All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Different Feeling Personality

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