Quotes About Rockabilly

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

Brian Setzer

#2. I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Dick Dale

#3. If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.

Imelda May

#4. 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.

Brian Setzer

#5. [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [ ... ] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [ ... ] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

John C. Reilly

#6. 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

#7. I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.

Katy Perry

#8. I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

Wanda Jackson

#9. 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

#10. The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists ...

Jimmy Page

#11. That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

#12. For me, rockabilly is very, very exciting music. It's electric and kind of wild, you know? It's 'make your hairs stand up on the back of your neck' kind of music.

Imelda May

#13. I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

Buck Owens

#14. If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

Kim Dickens

#15. I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Paul Simonon

#16. I guess my favorite artists are The White Stripes or Tom Waits. The more theatrical the music is, the more I get into it. I also like the quieter folk music, that kind of old-school rockabilly or country. I'm not really picky when it comes to music, as long as it's honest.

Landon Liboiron

#17. 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

#18. Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.

Imelda May

#19. 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

#20. rockabilly, solos, which used very few notes, mainly double stops (that is two notes at once) and were primarily

Damien Peters

#21. Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I'd never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.

Imelda May

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

Brian Setzer

#23. It is very unkind of you to feel this way. Any woman should properly yield, it seems to me, even a complete stranger, because that is the way of the world.... All I desire is solace from the flood of memories that overwhelms me.

Murasaki Shikibu

#24. Enlightened people and serene landscapes can help to elevate our inner bliss but the awareness must first be realized from within.

Christopher Dines

#25. When priorities are in place, one can more patiently tolerate unfinished business.

Russell M. Nelson

#26. My aim is to create a happy society with genuine friendship. Friendship between Tibetan and Chinese peoples is very essential.

Dalai Lama

#27. Thanks to the fictional character named Fraser, in a well-loved Scottish novel, Alexander's existence on the grounds of Culloden had become its own bit of Hell.

L.L. Muir

#28. My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.

Les Dawson

#29. A positive attitude and an open mind are true characteristics of all good fishermen

Kevin VanDam

#30. Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.

Leon Day

#31. Thats how you look at someone you're saying goodbye to forever. Someone you have to say goodbye to. I couldn't understand what was happening here. I couldn't understand what I'd done.

Nicolas Barreau

#32. I did painting before I did photography.

David Bailey

#33. Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best.

Gene Robinson

#34. Oh, Hazel is awesome," Don Said. "She's so nice! All the other campers are like 'Go away Don.' But she's like 'Please go away, Don.' I love her!

Rick Riordan