#rockabilly

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

#gift #god #gotten #great #i

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

#also #crazy #different #era #influences

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

#cats #classics #else #first #least

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

— Wanda Jackson

#fans #here #how #i #many

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

— Dick Dale

#cause #i #rockabilly #rocking #supposed

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

— Carl Perkins

#rockabilly #simple #sound #thought

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

— Brian Setzer

#festival #held #here #overseas #rockabilly

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

#country #country singer #gonna #i #just

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

#funny #guys #hung #i #kids