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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.

Stevie Ray Vaughan

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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Change Myself Right Weird
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Hard heavy Myself Talk
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 VAUGHAN

Guitar Hands Hold Sound Way Yourself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Business Flame Lying Thinking Wrong Yourself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Alive Important Life Thankful Thinking Yourself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Drive Front Hands Right Serious Yourself
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Feeling Growth Life Music Myself Togetherness
All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Different Feeling Personality
I love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Children Fine Love Relationship Time Wine
The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Big Deal Idol Life People Value Walk Yourself
Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Change Myself Name Work
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Brother Each Other Enemy Help See Sister Yourself
That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Life Live Time
Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Each Other Hold On Music Reach
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Beautiful Beginning Dreams Each Other Help Myself Sleep
The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Myself Neck Play Time Way

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