Corny Quote by Carl Perkins

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.

— Brian Setzer

...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to…

— Jimmy Page

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

— Chuck Berry

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

— Wanda Jackson

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

— Kim Dickens

“I ain’t never had me a single round in a professional, boxin’ ring. I’m whatcha call a street fighter, a knuckle brawler. Knives, beer…

— Todd Nelsen

McCartney! Haven't met him and haven't played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.

— Brian Setzer

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…

— Brian Setzer

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

— Dick Dale

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they…

— Imelda May

“rockabilly, solos, which used very few notes, mainly double stops (that is two notes at once) and were primarily”

— Damien Peters

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were…

— Brian Setzer

I like old rockabilly style. I always wear denim on denim with suspenders and slicked back hair.

— Sung Jin Park

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

— Katy Perry

[Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [...] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [...] There's…

— John C. Reilly