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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

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
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.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Death Example Growth Myself Unfortunate
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
So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Brother Guitar Myself Play Try
When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Mindset Myself Play Trouble
Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Leadership Play Rhythm Time Togetherness
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
I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That’s technical talk.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Hard heavy Myself Talk
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
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
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all. But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was. Now I’m finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Act Cool Fear Love Myself Try Walk
I don’t play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I’m breaking out of jail!
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Break Myself Play Prison
I got a lot of paradoxes in my life. I guess I’m a real confused person, but there are some focused parts to my life now, and I’m slowly trying to put all the pieces back together.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Guess Life Myself Pieces Reality Slow Togetherness
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
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
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN

Myself Problem Shop Sound

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