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.
Interpretation
The quote addresses the internal struggle between showing confidence and hiding fear, suggesting that embracing love helps overcome fear.
Stevie Ray Vaughan expresses his journey of pretending to be fearless while grappling with inner fears. He realizes that the fear he felt was countered by love, emphasizing that true strength comes from accepting vulnerability and nurturing love rather than succumbing to fear.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech about overcoming personal fears.
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'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.
You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other - our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. That's to help each other, not hurt each other.
Heroism is latent in every human soul - However humble or unknown, they (the veterans) have renounced what are accounted pleasures and cheerfully undertaken all the self-denials - privations, toils, dangers, sufferings, sicknesses, mutilations, life-long hurts and losses, death itself - for some great good, dimly seen but dearly held.
Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.
Sometimes I hear the crowd cheering, and most of the time your body's on auto pilot, so sometimes even after I do a floor routine, I'm like, 'Did I really just do that?'
In battle, if you you make your opponent flinch, you have already won.
Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is -- can you win or lose like a man?
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