don't know if these are real, but anyway, here they are:
(I like the quote what he says about acting
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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
"Bill Black only played on the A and the D strings. He never used the bottom E or the low G-always in the middle there." - Brian Setzer
"Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it." - Brian Setzer
"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
"For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas."
- Brian Setzer
"George Harrison... I'll tell you, he was really a rockabilly Cat! I mean, he really was! He loved it. Carl Perkins, Eddie, Gene Vincent, that was the stuff he really liked. He was very dry, very British. It's such a shame he's gone." - Brian Setzer
"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
"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
"I didn't know I was going to be part of the swing revival. I just wound up on that wave. It was something I've always wanted to try and all of a sudden these bands were popping up-Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. I was lumped in with that." - Brian Setzer
"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
"I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?" - Brian Setzer
"I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos." - Brian Setzer
"I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear." - Brian Setzer
"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
"I'm beginning to get the impression that I'll always be able to make a living! As a musician, you're always scampering... always hoping that you'll be able to keep working." - Brian Setzer
"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
"I've reached a point in my life where they just want me to write things I want to write, and they don't bother me!" - Brian Setzer
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys." - Brian Setzer
"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
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."
- Brian Setzer
"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
"The new material is rockabilly... maybe a little darker side of rockabilly this time... some bluesy sounding stuff, almost pre-rockabilly." - Brian Setzer
"The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's."
- Brian Setzer
"They always want me for soundtracks and TV commercials. I just did something for Miller Beer. I'm really lucky." - Brian Setzer
"They wanted me to ACT! I told them, no, no, no... I don't act!" - Brian Setzer
"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." - Brian Setzer
"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box." - Brian Setzer
"Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene." - Brian Setzer
"We had a little punk edge to us-we were full of piss and vinegar."
- Brian Setzer
"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
"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
"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
"Young people do love this music. It's timeless. But, where are they going to hear it?" - Brian Setzer
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Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:31 am
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