Brian Setzer Quotes

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• It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play…
• As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are…
• Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
• For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
• 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 that…
• I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I…
• I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from…
• I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
• I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.
• I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
• I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like…
• 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.
• 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 don't change.
• 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 New Yorker.
• McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.
• It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around…
• Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I…
• Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done…
• People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
• Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get…

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