My baby she’s a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
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 love my baby like the finest wine, I’ll stick with her until the end of time.
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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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Lots of times I’ll play lead and rhythm together.
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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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That’s how it happens, livin life by the drop.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.
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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.
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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.
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The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
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