To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk’s energy and feeling, but the players were much better. Brian Setzer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn’t make much sense. Brian Setzer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, never mind rock star. He’s so down to earth. Brian Setzer Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren’t emerging on the national scene. Brian Setzer Read Quote
