Brian Setzer Rockabilly Quotations

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

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.

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.

When I was a kid, I found out about Eddie Cochran and Gene Vincent through the Beatles and the Stones doing covers of rockabilly songs,

Rockabilly is really part of our background, ... It's a cousin to the blues and country. And it's that important.

I wanted to keep it authentic, ... I even went as far as copying the original drum parts. I felt that was an overlooked part of those recordings. Now when people play rockabilly they ignore the little fills and tricks they used.

I never really did rockabilly exactly like they did it in the '50s, ... We always kind of updated it. But I didn't need to go blasting crazy, wild guitar solos around this stuff. I tried to keep it authentic.