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Brian Setzer Quotes

American - Musician | April 10, 1959 -

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.

Heart Me Road Follow Your Heart You

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.

Joy People Think Touch Reason Out

I like a good pompadour.

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.

Music Yourself Try Afraid Take Some

I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense.

Band Mean Big Started Sense Grunge

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.

Voice You Copy Dumb Try Difficult

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

Here Every Festival Rockabilly Held

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.

Sun Think Find Down Month Within

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.

People Me Brain You Know Run

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.

Myself Guitar Down Want Map More

I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.

True Up Original Keep Songs Tried

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.

Sun Destination Back Go Now Way

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