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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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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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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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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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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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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.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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 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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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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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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