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Brian Setzer

"Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb."

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"Elvis is not so difficult as Johnny Cash because his voice is so distinctive. If you try to copy Johnny Cash, it's just going to sound dumb."

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Donna Grant

"Don't dumb it down. The audience is smart and gets what you are doing."

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Donna Grant

"When Andy died, I just drank to dumb my mind."

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Donna Grant

"I'm really, really dumb about describing wine, but I like wine that's full-bodied and dry."

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Donna Grant

"Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

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Donna Grant

"I'm stupid, I'm ugly, I'm dumb, I smell. Did I mention I'm stupid?"

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Donna Grant

"I had to go to a mirror and look at it. I couldn't picture myself in my own head. I had no image beyond a stick figure. I wasn't a mean person as a kid, or dumb, and something has to be said to justify excluding you."

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Donna Grant

"Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years."

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Donna Grant

"I remember working with Rod, though, on Chrysler Hour. I was too young and dumb to know that I was supposed to be scared of anybody or anything - like getting fired or anything like that."

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Donna Grant

"If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down."

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Donna Grant

"Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm."

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Brian Setzer
"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."

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Brian Setzer
"To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box."

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Brian Setzer
"The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why."

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Brian Setzer
"I put a metronome up to all the songs, and I tried to really keep it true to the original tempos."

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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
"Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it."

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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
"I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did."

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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
"A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy."

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