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 VAUGHANMy baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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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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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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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.
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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’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.
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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.
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