God it’s good to be here walkin together, my friend.
STEVIE RAY VAUGHANI wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
More Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes
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I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
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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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The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you’re up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
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So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I’d try it too.
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All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
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The way I play, I go through a set in a year. So I put ’58 Gibson Jumbo Bass frets on all my necks.
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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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Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.
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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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What I am trying to get across to you; is please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are hear for, that’s all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?
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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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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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Jazz changes and all. But I don’t know the names of what it is I’m doing.
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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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