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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 Vaughan

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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Black Live Myself Place White
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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Beautiful Beginning Dreams Each Other Help Myself Sleep
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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Best Growth Myself Time Try Young
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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Brother Guitar Myself Play Try
My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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Herself Learning Man Yourself
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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Better Day Greatness Myself See Teaching Thinking Wait
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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Myself Neck Play Time Way
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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Different Guitar Instrument Kind Myself Sound Versatile
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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Intimate Lock Reason Work
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 VAUGHAN

Guitar Hands Hold Sound Way Yourself
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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Change Myself Right Weird
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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Myself Problem Shop Sound
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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Big Deal Idol Life People Value Walk Yourself
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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Goodness Herself Human Leaving Life Word
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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Death Example Growth Myself Unfortunate
I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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