The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANBut 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.
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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I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
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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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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’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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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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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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I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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.
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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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I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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