Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

I sometimes like the situation that forces you to rely on your instinct and impulses.

I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.

I don't tend to question things that much. If it feels right, I go for it.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

I never think about the play or visualize anything. I do what comes to me at that moment. Instinct. It has always been that way.

I didn't even know what I did in 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape'. I just went off with whatever I felt instinctually without a second thought.

Don't use your brain to play it, let your feelings guide your fingers.

Improvisation is really not so much remembering things. And this is what I do when I play. I forget things. When I go on the stage, I want my mind to be a blank, so that I can - things can come into me without my knowing where they came from.

There is no shame in impulse.

If you stand back and analyze the best way to do something, you'll be standing there forever. Follow your gut and jump right in!

Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief.

You ever go up to the tee and say, 'Don't hit it left, don't hit it right'? That's your conscious mind. My body knows how to play golf. I've trained it to do that. It's just a matter of keeping my conscious mind out of it.

I've never gone through an audition process or anything. In most of my decisions like that, I just kind of feel it out: You know, do I feel comfortable with this person?

I've always been quite a spontaneous person, so I would lean more towards, if you feel it and you know its right, then do it.

Sometimes you gotta go with your first instinct. You gotta go with your gut. That's kind of how I live my life, you gotta go with your gut.

You have to go with your instincts.

How many situations can be resolved with less thinking?

Our spontaneous action is always the best. You cannot, with your best deliberation and heed, come so close to any question as your spontaneous glance shall bring you.

If you feel something, you should do it.

Every major move in my life was done instinctively.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

Sometimes I think I don't have much choice in the matter. It's just what happens, and I'm following my instincts the whole time.

I'm not a guy who counts cards. I'm a guy that plays with feeling. Because I feel that if something is going to come up, it comes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't. And a lot of people get pissed at me because that's the way I play but that's the way I learned to play - with my feelings.

I am a slave to the rhythm. I am a palette. I just go with the moment. You've got to do it that way because if you're thinking, you're dead. Performing is not about thinking; it's about feeling.

My pictures are never pre-visualized or planned. I feel strongly that pictures must come from contact with things at the time and place of taking. At such times, I rely on intuitive, perceptual responses to guide me, using reason only after the final print is made to accept or reject the results of my work.