Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Hands, Sides, Serious

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• Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Names, Jazz, Knows

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• I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Saxophone, Wanted

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Growing Up, Heart, Feel Good

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Fun, White, Black

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• I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. If I wanted to learn somebody's stuff, like with Clapton, when I wanted to learn how he was getting some of his sounds - which were real neat - I learned how to make the sounds with my mouth and then copied that with my guitar.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Real, Guitar, People

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• So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Brother, Guitar, Trying

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• 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

  Done, Firsts, Strings

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• The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  People, Bigger Than Life, Walks

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• I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Wine, Sticks

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• Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Together, Rhythm

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• The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Problem, Shops

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Years, Play, Bass

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Together, Growing, Way

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Business, Lying, Thinking

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Song, Real, Trying

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• I figured out how to get the guitar to rumble...I put it on the middle pickup, turn the tone know down, grab it by the wang bar, and just shake it on the floor... a Stratocaster is pretty tough - I wouldn't recommend that anybody do that with their ES-335

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Music, Guitar, Bars

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• Some people don't understand that but it's nice when it really just gets to the point then that it [music] doesn't get played so much that you're overdoing a lot of things; that it's fresh ideas. And they come out fresh and if you're already in the mode, I guess, to simplify some things so that it comes across better on record, it's the right time to be tasteful with somethin'.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Nice, Ideas, People

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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

  Play, Piano, Different

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• Day by day night after night Blinded by the neon lights Hurry here, hustlin' there No one's got the time to spare Money's tight, nothin' free Won't somebody come and rescue me? I am stranded, caught in the crossfire Stranded, caught in the crossfire! Tooth for tooth, eye for an eye Sell your soul just to buy, buy, buy Beggin' a dollar stealin' a dime Come on can't you see that I I am stranded, caught in the crossfire

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Eye, Night, Light

  Song: Crossfire

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• Well there's floodin' down in Texas. All of the telephone lines are down. Well, I've been tryin' to call my baby, Lord, and I can't get a single sound.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Travel, Texas

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• My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Baby, Revenge, Mean

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