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1. "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
2. "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
3. "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
4. "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
5. "I started a big band when grunge was popular. I mean, that didn't make much sense." ~ Brian Setzer
6. "Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene." ~ Brian Setzer
7. "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
8. "Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it." ~ Brian Setzer
9. "For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas." ~ Brian Setzer
10. "I like a good pompadour." ~ Brian Setzer
11. "I love Glen Campbell. He never gets a mention." ~ Brian Setzer
12. "I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos." ~ Brian Setzer
13. "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
14. "Just because you put super great musicians together, it doesn't mean you're going to have that chemistry as a band." ~ Brian Setzer
15. "People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys." ~ Brian Setzer
16. "Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth." ~ Brian Setzer
17. "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
18. "The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's." ~ Brian Setzer
19. "To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box." ~ Brian Setzer
20. "To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better." ~ Brian Setzer
21. "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

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