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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANMusic really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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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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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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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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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!
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