Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

• 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 hoe great it will get!

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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.

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

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• And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

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

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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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• Lonnie was ahead of his time, but at the same time he was right in there with Albert Collins’s Cool Sounds.

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

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• Ya know, right now the most important thing in my life is to make sure you understand that, first of all I thank God I’m alive today, and I mean that. I spent too many years of my life thinking that the big party was the whole thing.

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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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• The Marshall is supposed to be 200 watts, but mine’s never worked right; it peaks out at 80.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That is to help each other and not hurt each other.

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Stevie Ray Vaughan (16)

Birth:	3rd October, 1954
Death:	27th August, 1990
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Musician, Singer, Lyricist

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