Rockabilly Quotes

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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.

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.

Music is music; you can't change rock and say well this is punk rock and this is acid rock or rockabilly.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.