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 VAUGHANI actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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.
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I’m just doing the best I can now to keep this going… trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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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’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.
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I play as many different things – piano, sax and harp parts – as I can at once. Whatever I can fit, whenever I need to.
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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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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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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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.
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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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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