Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Sister, Friends, Hurt

  YouTube Chanel "ed1962"/ "Stevie Ray Vaughan - 11 - Life Without You - Philadelphia Blues (Bootleg)", www.youtube.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Jail, Finesse

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• Music really is a way to reach out and hold on to each other in a healthy way.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Healthy, Way, Reach Out

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• The way people come into your life when you need them, it's wonderful and it happens in so many ways. It's like having an angel. Somebody comes along and helps you get right.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Angel, People, Needs

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• I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play Hard, Guitar, Tunes

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Guitar, Hands, Sound

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Growing Up, Trying, Young

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• Music has become really important now. It's helped me to open up more and take a chance on loving people. Music is a good reason to care. It's just a vehicle though. It's a way to try and give somebody something that you feel. If trying the best I can isn't good enough, I'll just have to try harder next time...it's all I can do. If I do the best I can, then at least I did the best I could in this life The way I like to look at it is....if that's the last time /I ever got to play, I'd better give it everything I've got.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, People, Giving

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• That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Philosophy, Happens

  Song: Life By The Drop

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• 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 Vaughan

  Beautiful, Dream, Future

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• When I play from my mind I get in trouble.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Play, Mind, Trouble

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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?

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Trying, Please

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• I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all.
  But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was.
  Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Opposites, Trying, Scared

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Kindness, Good Life, Doors

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• I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Drummer, Wanted

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• I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Thinking, Next Week, Years

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Friendship, Eye, Mirrors

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• I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Rocks, Thank God, Hitting Bottom

  "Guitar World" Magazine, September 1988.

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• God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Friendship, Together, My Friends

  Song: Life By The Drop

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Guitar, Sound, Different

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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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• All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Inspirational, Music, Personality

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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.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Confused, Real, Trying

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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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• 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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