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 VAUGHANEven 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.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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.
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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.
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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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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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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I’m finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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