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 VAUGHANI actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I’m a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I’m slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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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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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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Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
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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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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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The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
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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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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.
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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 hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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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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