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 VAUGHANThe way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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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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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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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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Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I’m only looking at a friend.
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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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God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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