"As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom……" — Brian Setzer
"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 now out of business."
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41 Quotes by Brian Setzer
Brian Setzer has 41 quotes on this site.
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It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes…
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Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
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I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my…
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I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished…
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I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and…
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I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
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I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the…
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I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original…
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I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take…
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I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than…
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It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now!…
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More Bass Quotes
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Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I…
— Dan Aykroyd
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I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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Black Sabbath was written on bass: I just walked into the studio and went, bah, bah, bah, and everybody joined…
— Geezer Butler
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I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.
— David Byrne
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Bass players are always the intellectual kind, but nobody knows it.
— Stanley Clarke
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Because nobody wanted to play bass, I was instantly in a band.
— Les Claypool
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In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since…
— Les Claypool
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Actually, there was another band where we were three girls, around '84 when I met John Zorn, called Sunset Chorus.…
— Ikue Mori
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Could have called back just to say som' I'm fall back in the bass drum
— Nicki Minaj
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Louis Armstrong changed all the brass players around, but after Bird, all of the instruments had to change - drums,…
— Unknown Author
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of…
— Jimmy Webb
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