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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI’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.
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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Some of us can be examples about going ahead and growing, and some of us, unfortunately, don’t make it there, and end up being examples because they had to die. I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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 actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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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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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 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.
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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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 don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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