The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANYou 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.
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’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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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If you hit the front end on the right-hand side you could turn that one on by itself and if you hit on the left-hand side you could turn it on and off. And in the middle it was like serious overdrive.
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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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My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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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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I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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