Baron Vaughn Quotes

Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.

Neville and I are big fans of ska. He's actually more into original, Jamaican, skinhead, two-tone ska from England, but I'm more into punk ska - Operation Ivy and stuff Rancid would do.

One of my favourite songs is 'A Message to You, Rudy,' which was done by the Specials.

I would love to have played in the '60s. Now that would have been fun.

I use a lot of tunings because I listen to a lot of jazz.

My mother was really into big band. It was played in the house all the time.

The people who were in college in the '50s were my first real audience, and their kids, the people who found my records in the cabinet during their 'Mad 'magazine years picked me up also.

We've all had our thing. I listened to the Monkees when I was little kid.

I was an MTV guy back in the day.

I fell in love with Sinatra when I was very young.

I like being in the '60s.

Growing up in the '90s was the coolest thing to me.

The 'Jonny Quest' theme had a huge influence on me while I was growing up.

Mixtapes were the soundtrack, back in my day, of peoples' lives.

Everyone my age probably grew up listening to the 'perreos' of Plan B.

At 15 I discovered girls and '90s ska.

Somebody asked me once, 'Do you think that swing will ever come back?' And I said, 'Do you think the 1938 Ford will ever come back?'

[Bebop is] Chinese music.

'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me.

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles.

I was really into music. I started playing guitar also when I was nine. I wanted to be in the Beatles, even though John Lennon died the year I got a guitar and the Beatles broke up before I was born.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

When I heard Coleman Hawkins, I learned to play ballads

I didn't just write about boys and relationships like usual. I wrote about other things: rock 'n' roll, nostalgia, Hello Kitty.