76 Quotes by Brian Setzer

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

I got cat class and I got cat style.

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.

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.

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.

McCartney! Haven’t met him and haven’t played with him. I would LOVE to. He needs to make a kick-ass rockabilly record.

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

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.

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.