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Brian Setzer

"It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was."

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"It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was."

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Donna Grant

"The Sims is kind of an interesting case because we had all these expansion packs. We were able to incrementally add on and explore without invading the core dynamic or the core game play."

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Donna Grant

"What I try to do in a play is put a problem on stage, head-on, without evasion."

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Donna Grant

"We really never know what we're gonna play when we get on stage."

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Donna Grant

"You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile."

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Donna Grant

"I never said I wasn't going to play any more. I don't know where that came from."

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Donna Grant

"We just finished making a record. Everybody wants to play shows, so we're going to after that."

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Donna Grant

"When I die, I'll probably climb out of the coffin and play the organ at my own funeral!"

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Donna Grant

"I was jumping out of my skin. It was horrible. I was all over the place, because I'd never been in front of a live audience. That's a whole other element in the play, the audience."

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Donna Grant

"All I ever wanted to do was play the drums; I felt good about myself when I played the drums. So I worked anywhere and everywhere I could lug my drums in."

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Donna Grant

"I taught myself to play the piano. I've always been able to play, the minute I could get my hands up. I've always wanted to play the piano. It's the only instrument I've ever really liked, and it's the only one that's ever interested me."

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Brian Setzer
"It's not about how loud you turn the amp up. That's not what makes it sound big. What makes it sound big is fooling around with different delays and reverb settings."

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Brian Setzer
"Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed."

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Brian Setzer
"It is hard to play Blue Suede Shoes. I know everyone has heard it 10 million times, and that makes it even harder to play it, but there's a very laid back tempo on that. I was surprised at how slow it really was."

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Brian Setzer
"I basically sat down for a month, with all the Sun stuff I could find and just picked out my favorites. I didn't think that they were indicative of '54 to '57, although I tried to stay within that period."

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Brian Setzer
"Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music."

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Brian Setzer
"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."

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Brian Setzer
"I wanted to go back to Sun. Unfortunately, most of the gear is gone from Sun. The way I take it now, it's almost like a tourist destination. So, it would have been pretty difficult to have brought all the gear into Sun to make it like it was in the '50's."

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Brian Setzer
"Normally, you go into the recording studio, make a record and then take it on the road and you think... wow... I could have done THIS to it, or something."

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Brian Setzer
"The jazz chord substitutions in a country song... that was another thing that bent people's ears. I guess that my favorites are the unique ones. It's not how fast you play. It's that unique blending of different stuff I'm most proud of."

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Brian Setzer
"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."

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