Your sound is in your hands as much as anything. It’s the way you pick, and the way you hold the guitar, more than it is the amp or the guitar you use.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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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 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 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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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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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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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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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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