Stevie Ray Vaughan Quotes

Last tour my bass rig was breaking down every other night. That was a pain. We would get on stage and Trey would count off the song, and I'd play the first note and nothing would be there. Those guys would just roll their eyes.

I couldn't sell air conditioners on a 98-degree day. When I demonstrated them in a showroom, I pushed the wrong button and blew the circuit.

I do as much debugging as possible on the Mac, but I occasionally must debug problems in the PC world, which is significantly slower.

I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes wrong.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Technical problems are like gremlins. They come and go.

It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.

In the studio, my brother and I have always used a lot of Marshall amps. We like to keep it pretty basic. We just use a couple of cabinets each - sometimes just one, if we think that's enough. We mainly go for 100-watt and 50-watt heads.

That gets me upset- you're jamming along, checking out the crowd and having a good time, and then your equipment goes down. You can't just stop the show and say, 'Oh, Jeff's got a guitar problem.'

One operator is no big deal. That can be fixed in a jiffy.

Troubleshooting a wiring problem is a soul-killing experience.

I loved music, and in my ninth year at MIT, I decided to buy a hi-fi set. I figured that all I needed to do was look at the specifications. So I bought what looked like the best one, turned it on, and turned it off in five minutes, the sound was so poor.

I blew amps like they were made of tissue paper. Once I blew out the sound system at Royal Albert Hall in London.

I was relatively technically adept. I can edit and wire up a light.

When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

I have a computer screen near my seat where I monitor the overall health of the vehicle and pick up any problems that might be occurring early on or once we see any kind of a malfunction or anything unusual that's happening, we can look at the data and figure out what that is.

I love good, loud speakers.

I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.

As an engineer I'm constantly spotting problems and plotting how to solve them.

I'm not a programmer myself, but I am a very, very picky end user of technology. I like my machines to work they way they're supposed to, all the time.

I got a man cave. I play my music loud. I bought big speakers because I need to hear music loud.

It's fun, but the fun is where it always was. I mean, it's still fun to strap on my Les Paul in the basement and turn up the Marshall amp. I'm still 15. I still enjoy that as much as I ever did.

My knowledge of electrical subjects was not acquired in a methodical manner but was picked up from such books as I could get hold of and from such experiments as I could make with my own hands.

I found that pedals were too much to fool around with. You'd be halfway through a solo, and the batteries would go dead and conk out. And if you tread on the lead going to the pedal, something would always go wrong. Or some crazy kid would pull the lead out just at the moment when you're about to do your big number on it.

I have this old speaker set with amps and a record player from the 1970s. And I'm slowly collecting vinyl again.