To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look,… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
