Stevie Ray Vaughan famous quotes

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.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Sister #Friends #Hurt

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

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

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

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 #Use #Sound

I wanted to play saxophone, but all I could get were a few squeaks.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Play #Saxophone #Wanted

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.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Party #Mean #Thinking

I use heavy strings, tune low, play hard, and floor it. Floor it. That's technical talk.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Play #Guitar #Use

That's how it happens, livin life by the drop.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Philosophy

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.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Rocks #Thank God #Growing

The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Problem #Shops

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

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

#Firsts #Done #Strings

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

So, my big brother was playing guitar and I figured I'd try it too.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Brother #Guitar #Trying

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

#Hands #Guitar #Use

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 #Giving #People

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

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 #Tone

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

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

I love my baby like the finest wine, I'll stick with her until the end of time.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Baby #Wine #Sticks

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

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

Jazz changes and all. But I don't know the names of what it is I'm doing.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Names #Jazz

The whole deal is when you walk onstage, you're up there bigger than life. People idolize you.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#People #Bigger #Deals

God it's good to be here walkin together, my friend.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Friendship #Together

When I play from my mind I get in trouble.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Play #Mind #Trouble

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 #Years #Waiting

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

All the Strats have personalities of their own and feel completely different.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Music #Personality #Different

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

Lots of times I'll play lead and rhythm together.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Play #Together #Rhythm

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

I actually wanted to be a drummer, but I didn't have any drums.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Drummer #Wanted

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

#Play #Years #Way

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

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Rocks #Thank God #Bottom

I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Jail #Play #Finesse

My baby she's a long and lean, you mess with her you see a man get mean.
-- Stevie Ray Vaughan

#Baby #Revenge #Mean

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