Rockabilly's Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You do your bit and then you hope for the best and you think, oh I hope there's an audience at the end of the day.

Sally Hawkins

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

Brian Setzer

#4. We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax. No tinkering with this, that, or the other law will stop the trend toward socialism. We must repeal the Sixteenth Amendment.

Frank Chodorov

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Carl Perkins

#8. 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

#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. 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

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

Wanda Jackson

#12. Giving comfort under affliction requires that penetration into the human mind, joined to that experience which knows how to soothe, how to reason, and how to ridicule; taking the utmost care never to apply those arts improperly.

Henry Fielding

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. [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

#16. 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

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

Dick Dale

#18. Sometimes I think the choir gets a little ticked with me because I haven't sung in a long time and I can sing.

Della Reese

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

Damien Peters

#20. Build my night with your cheeks.

Malak El Halabi

#21. Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is.

David Lynch

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Your time and your true relevance are just like your shadow, the more you take steps into the darkness, the more they disappear!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#25. 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

#26. The academic area of new music or modern music festivals is not something which attracts me at all.

Gavin Bryars

#27. From a real antagonist one gains boundless courage.

Franz Kafka

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Brian Setzer

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

Kim Dickens

#32. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

Lyndon B. Johnson