I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANYou 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.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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 wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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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 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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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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 whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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.
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