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Top 25 Brian Setzer Quotes (2025 Update)

Brian Setzer Quote: “There’s a fine line between pleasure and pain. Love me like a ball and chain.”

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

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Brian Setzer Quote: “I got cat class and I got cat style.”

2. “I got cat class and I got cat style.”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

3. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

4. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box.”

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

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don’t know why.”

8. “The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don’t know why.”

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

9. “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

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

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

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk’s energy and feeling, but the players were much better.”

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

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

12. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “Don’t be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.”

13. “Don’t be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?”

14. “I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

15. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “Mark Winchester has left the band. He’s decided that he’s tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don’t blame him at all. He’ll certainly be missed.”

16. “Mark Winchester has left the band. He’s decided that he’s tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don’t blame him at all. He’ll certainly be missed.”

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

17. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

18. “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.”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

19. “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.”

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Brian Setzer Quote: “I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn’t think that they were indicative of ’54 to ’57, although I tried to stay within that period.”

20. “I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn’t think that they were indicative of ’54 to ’57, although I tried to stay within that period.”

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “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.”

21. “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

Brian Setzer Quote: “I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos.”

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

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “I thought it would be cool to take flat-picking and put it in overdrive. I thought it would bend the ear.”

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

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren’t emerging on the national scene.”

24. “Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren’t emerging on the national scene.”

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys.”

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

— Brian Setzer

Brian Setzer Quote: “For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.”

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

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Brian Setzer Quote: “The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the ’50’s.”

27. “The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the ’50’s.”

— Brian Setzer

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