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Brian Robert Setzer (born April 10, 1959) is an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly group Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the early 1990s with his swing revival band, the Brian Setzer Orchestra.

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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.

Digging, Heart, Know, Listen, Listened, Mean

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.

Destination, Difficult, Gone, Take, Tourism, Tourists

I don't think there is a musician today that hasn't been affected by Elvis' music. His definitive years - 1954-57 - can only be described as rock's cornerstone. He was the original cool.

Music, Original, Rocks, Think, Thinking, Years

My D'Angelico is a jazz archtop guitar. That guitar was made for Glenn Miller's guitar player in 1939. It's a '39 D'Angelico New Yorker.

1939, Glenn, Guitar, Jazz, Player

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?

Listen, Mean, Watson, Years

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.

Cash, Distinctive, Dumb, Elvis, Stupid, Voice

There's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.

Ball, Balls, Chain, Lines, Love, Pain

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.

Deserve, Gift, Gotten, Player, Players, Rockabilly

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

Festival, Festivals, Overseas, Rockabilly, Staged

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

Forward, Songwriting, Stepped

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

Metronomes, Original, Song, Songs, Tempo, True

People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.

Guy, Know, Maybe, People, Records

Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think. . . wow. . . I could have done THIS to it, or something.

Done, Normally, Records, Road, Thinking, Wow

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during the '90's are now out of business.

Bass, Business, Genre, Labels, United States

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.

Crazy, Movie, Things, Write, Writing

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.

Bigger, Change, Guitar, Rooms, Think, Thinking

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.

Come, Guitar, Hook, Keep, Let, Use

I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.

Being Cool, Ear, Ears, Overdrive, Thought, Would Be

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

Acts, Dying, Emerging, Scene, Veteran

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say that, all things considered, he's probably my favorite "cat" of all time

Cat, Guitar, Music, Singing, Things

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