My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico… — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense. — 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
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos. — Brian Setzer Copy Share Image
It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things… — 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
Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career… — 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
It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big… — 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'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
