I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes a raw and passionate approach to playing music, likening it to the urgency of escaping captivity.
Stevie Ray Vaughan's quote reveals his approach to music as one filled with intensity and boldness rather than delicacy. By comparing his style to breaking out of jail, he highlights his desire to express himself freely and powerfully, indicating that his performances are driven by a deep emotional need for liberation and creativity.
In practice
Using this quote in a music lesson to inspire students to play passionately.
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.
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.
I was walking around trying to act cool, like I had no fear at all._x000D_ But I was afraid, afraid that somebody would find out just how scared I was._x000D_ Now I'm finally realizing that fear is the opposite of love.
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
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.
The problem with taking amps to a shop is that they come back sounding like another amp.
I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Alger: A man on the move, and just sick enough to be totally confident.
Go ahead and do what you really love to do! Do nothing else! You have so little time. How can you think of wasting a moment doing something for a living you don't like to do? What kind of a living is that? That is not a living, that is a dying!
The number one cause of failure in this country is the fear of failure.
Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.
I donβt want to be a supermodel; I want to be a role model.
The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.
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