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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

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

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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.

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

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: October 3rd, 1954

Died: August 27th, 1990

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