Brian Setzer Quotes

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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 of that era.
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  • The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the `50`s.
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  • People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
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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 keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
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  • It`s not about how loud you turn the amp up. That`s not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings.
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  • I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.
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  • For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
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  • Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something.
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  • The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people`s ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It`s not how fast you play. It`s that unique blending of different stuff I`m most proud of.
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  • A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won`t touch it. But I don`t think that`s the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.
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  • Those drum parts were so integral to that original rockabilly. People don`t play that anymore. A lot of those original drum fills were kept.
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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 modern classics if you do rockabilly or blues.
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  • To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
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  • It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there`s a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was.
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  • Mark Winchester has left the band. He`s decided that he`s tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don`t blame him at all. He`ll certainly be missed.
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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.
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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 run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don`t know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
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  • Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren`t emerging on the national scene.
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  • Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it`s just going to sound dumb.
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  • I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn`t think that they were indicative of `54 to `57, although I tried to stay within that period.
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  • The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don`t know why.
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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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  • Since the big band started I`m just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it`s very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.
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  • I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it`s almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the `50`s.
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