Quotes by Brian Setzer - Page 1

I got cat class and I got cat style
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Cat
Class
Style
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I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Campbell
Mention
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I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Mean
Watson
Years
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The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Challenges
Knows
Rhythm
Biggest Challenge
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The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Songwriting
Stepped
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For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Festivals
Rockabilly
Festival
Held
Overseas
Staged
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There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Balls
Lines
Pain
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I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Big Band
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To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Boxes
Creating
Creating Something
Type
Box
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Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Liberty
Trying
Liberties
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People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Guy
People
Records
Sun
Blues
Junior
Parker
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Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Dying
Emerging
Performers
Scene
Veteran
Acts
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To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Energy
Feelings
Player
Punk
Rockabilly
Music Me Energy
Music Better Me
Feeling
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Metronomes
Song
Tempo
Tempos
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Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Down To Earth
Plant
Rock Star
Nicest
Nicest People
Robert
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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 ear.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Being Cool
Ears
Would Be
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Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Chemistry
Super
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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 / Guitarist
Kick Ass
Needs
Records
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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 / Guitarist
Deserve
Player
Rockabilly
God Great Gift
Gotten
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It's really funny, I think to myself... I've got my same guitar and amp, it's just a bigger room now! Some things don't change.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Guitar
Rooms
Thinking
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Rock And Roll
Blew
Mixed
Swing
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My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Guitar
Jazz
Player
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Cash
Distinctive
Dumb
Sound
Stupid
Voice
Copy
Elvis
Johnny
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Done
Recording Studio
Records
Thinking
Wow
Record
Normally
Road
Studio
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Musical
Rockabilly
Influences
Mix
Standard
Styles
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Delay
Different
Loud
Settings
Sound
Delays
Amp
Fooling
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You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rakin' and Scrapin'.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Blue
Labels
Shoes
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Guitar
Guitar Playing
Hook
Use
Hooks
Solos
Map
More Or Less
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Pedestal
Pure
Pure Joy
Touch
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Cat
Real
Rockabilly
Somewhere Else
Song
Weak
Cats
Somewhere
Blues
Classics
Stray
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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 now out of business.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Bass
Labels
United States
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Blame
Careers
Decided
Mark
Nashville
Tired
Missed
Winchester
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I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Rocks
Thinking
Years
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Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else out. It changed the whole landscape of music
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Music
Albums
Energy
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Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Music
Down And
Rocks
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Movie
Band
Bills
Crazy
Satisfying
Writing
Music Movies Always
Big Band
Charts
Swamped
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Months
Sat
Stuff
Sun
Thinking
Within
Although
Month
Period
Favorites
Indicative
Picked
Tried
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Running
Backwards
Cat
People
Possessed
Brain Me People
Diminished
How Many People
Stray
Strut
Wired
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Blue
Hard Times
Harder
Laid Back
Play
Tempo
Laid
Million
Million Times
Slow
Suede
Surprised
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,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time
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Music
Cat
Guitar
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If you listen to everybody's opinions, I mean, I always say I'd be digging a ditch on the side of the road now if I had listened to what everybody told me what to do. You know, you have to follow your heart, you have to.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Digging
Do You Know
Follow Your Heart
Heart
Mean
Heart Always Your
Ditch
Heart Me Your
Listened
Opinions
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Bent
Country
Ears
Jazz
Song
Unique
Blending
Chord
Fast
Favorites
Guess
Song Country People
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I always thought when I hit 50 years old that'd be it for the travel. I don't have to tell you - you wait at an airport, your flight's delayed, get on a 14-hour flight, get off, get stuck in traffic, you get to the hotel and the room service is closed.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Delayed
Flight
Hotel
Room Service
Stuck
Traffic
Airport
Closed
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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.
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Destination
Gone
Sun
Tourism
Tourists
Unfortunately
Gear
Tourist
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... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can really tell on some tracks ... they were actually afraid at times of what they were playing. But Rock & Roll definitely didn't come before that time; it started right there
Brian Setzer / Guitarist
Music
Rocks
Track
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