Rockabilly Music Quotes

#1. 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

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

Brian Setzer

#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. I'm sure the makers of Downy would be pleased to know that their product makes even mummified human skin soft and fragrant.

William M. Bass

#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. I prefer my history dead. Dead history is writ in ink, the living sort in blood.

George R R Martin

#7. I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.

Rosa Nouchette Carey

#8. We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

#9. Every father says the same thing: "Where's your mother?"

Bill Cosby

#10. Rose: You have a gift Jack, you do. You see people.
Jack: I see you.
Rose: And?
Jack: You wouldn't have jumped.

James Cameron

#11. Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.

Erik Brynjolfsson

#12. When people say, 'If you could do anything else, what would you do?' I would be an actress. That's something that I would do - I can't see myself doing anything else.

Imani Hakim

#13. I loved the bootcamp and the training. It was the actual Navy and the structure after it that I realized wasn't for me because they're building soldiers. It's a system, and you can't really stick out; you can't be the oddball out in the military.

Kiesza

#14. 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

#15. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

Joe Slovo

#17. 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

#18. Economies thrive when individuals strive, but because individuals will only strive for their own happiness, it is essential that they mistakenly believe that producing and consuming are routes to personal well-being.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#19. I refuze (refuse) to allow society to dictate my limitations.

Tony Kates

#20. 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

#21. I do not know what happened with your parents or why they did what they did. But in all the world, I could have wished for no daughter but you.

John Stephens

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

Moss Hart