Rockabilly Quotes
14 quotes by 8 authors
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I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be…
— Buck Owens
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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' sides during the '90's are…
— Brian Setzer
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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
— Brian Setzer
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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 they've gotten.
— Brian Setzer
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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
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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…
— Brian Setzer
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...the blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me…
— Jimmy Page
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
— Wanda Jackson
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To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
— Brian Setzer
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That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
— Carl Perkins
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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
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I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented…
— Paul Simonon
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I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.
— Dick Dale
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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 part…
— Brian Setzer
Who Wrote These Rockabilly Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 14 Rockabilly Quotes as follows: