Brian Setzer Quotes

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• The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.
• The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones.…
• The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
• To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
• Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
• You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and…
• With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in…
• Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew…
• I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described…
• Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn ..…
• ,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his…
• ... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock…
• I got cat class and I got cat style
• To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
• 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 I…
• Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to…
• I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.
• Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed. Rock and roll came in and just blew everything out of the water. Big bands were dead.
• I like a good pompadour.
• A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did…

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