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Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

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

Stevie Ray Vaughan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1954 - August 27, 1990

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Brother Guitar Try Big Big Brother

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

Love Girl World Go Young See

'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

Success Creative Result Nothing Fox

The conventional wisdom is that authors get only one chance in this world. If your first novel doesn't sell, publishers and bookstores lose interest, and your career stalls, barring an act of God or Oprah.

God Wisdom World Chance Lose Career

I own 100% of everything because I like to control what I do.

Control Everything Own Because Like

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

Business Music People Small You Way

And for myself, I think for the present He is calling me to another land; but how long shall be my abode, or what employment He has for me there, I know not, for I cannot think He is taking me there to live and lurk only.

Live Myself Me Think Present Long

It is the province of poetry to be more realistic and present than the artificial narratives of an outer discourse, and not afraid of the truthful difficulty of the average human life.

Life Poetry Present More Human

We have to come into this industry so young, and you have to learn to take it as it is. I was scouted at 14, started modelling at 15, and lived in New York at 16.

New York Learn You New Young Lived

My job is to throw passes and be a leader.

Leader Job Throw Passes

Thousands of people seeing the same thing cannot all be wrong.

People Seeing Wrong Same Cannot

Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

William Ruckelshaus

Nature Lunch Control Free Free Lunch

My advice would be to look at the things you do to make money as ways to inform your work in the end. If our work is to study the human condition, most humans that we are going to be playing aren't going to be artists, so go out and, as I did, learn what it's like to have a 9-to-5 job... Think of it as character study.

Work Character Money Job Think End

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