"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker……" — Brian Setzer
"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
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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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As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin'…
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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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More Blues Quotes
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one of 667 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Of course, there are a lot of ways you can treat the blues, but it will still be the blues.
— Count Basie
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Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.
— Ritchie Blackmore
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Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
— Christina Aguilera
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
— Jeff Bridges
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'Tailgate Blues' is kind of a lyrical masterpiece of a country song.
— Luke Bryan
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I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to…
— Gary Allan
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The blues is instilled in every musical cell that floats around your body.
— Nick Cave
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I'm an Australian, and when I grew up much of my influences were American - blues music and country music,…
— Nick Cave
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What makes my approach special is that I do different things. I do jazz, blues, country music and so forth.…
— Ray Charles
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The blues are what I've turned to, what has given me inspiration and relief in all the trials of my…
— Eric Clapton
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