"Rock and roll and swing never quite mixed.……" — Brian Setzer
"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."
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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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