Stray Cats Quotes

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

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 songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's. 
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 

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene. 
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 

Young people do love this music. It's timeless. But, where are they going to hear it? 
Brian Setzer