Quotes by Brian Setzer

About Brian Setzer:

Brian Robert Setzer is an American guitarist, singer and songwriter. He first found widespread success in the early 1980s with the 1950s-style rockabilly revival group Stray Cats, and revitalized his career in the late 1990s with his Swing revival band, The Brian Setzer Orchestra.
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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

Robert Plant is one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, never mind rock star. He's so down to earth.

Brian Setzer

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

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

Brian Setzer

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

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 close...

Brian Setzer

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

Brian Setzer

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.

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

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

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

Author Bio

  • NameBrian Setzer
  • DescriptionAmerican singer
  • BornApril 10, 1959
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Bandleader; Conductor; Singer; Jazz Musician