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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANSo, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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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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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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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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The way people come into your life when you need them, it’s wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It’s like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.
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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 don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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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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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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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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