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 VAUGHANJazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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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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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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I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.
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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn’t have any drums.
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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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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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But 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.
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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.
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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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