Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

I've always liked the electric guitar better. Even though the acoustic can be a very sexy and mysterious instrument, I can go to way more places with an electric.

A Strat was a thing of wonder .. when I was 14 or 15, the Shadows were a big influence, and they had the first Strats that came to England. I like to play all kinds of guitars, but I wasn't getting the sound I really wanted until I got a Stratocaster

I use Gibson guitars; I prefer the Les Paul custom.

I have one custom guitar which I play almost exclusively. I have others - sometimes you want a little texture, kind of a different sound or something.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

I like the sound of a Silvertone amp for myself. It's kind of cleaner guitar sounds when necessary, maybe a little less metal-sounding. But it really doesn't matter what amp I play through; it's really the way I voice chords and play guitar, how I strike the strings.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

My mom bought me a white Strat, but that wasn't what I wanted, so I went to a guitar store in Cleveland and - the guy told me it was a really good deal - made an even swap for a blue Teisco Del Ray. I loved that guitar and used it a bunch.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

I like guitars in the Fender style because they have skinny necks.

My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and a Gibson solid-body like an SG or a Les Paul. It contains all sounds of the basic classic rock n' roll guitars. It does what I want it to do.

I probably own 100 guitars and all of them are electric.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.

Nobody seems to play Yamaha electrics, but it's the best guitar I own.

When I got my first Marshall amp, it was so empowering. No one ever forgets their first Marshall amp if you're a guitar player pursuing a big powerful sound. I mean, no one ever forgets their first Marshall amp.

It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.

I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.