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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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"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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Amber Hurdle

"When we started the band, it was because we were waiting for a sound that never happened. We got tired of waiting, and we decided to just do it ourselves."

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"I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice."

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Amber Hurdle

"I think I sound like Barry White."

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"I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sound is often talked about in a very subjective way, as if it had a colour. This is a bright sound, this is a dark sound. I don't believe in that because I think that is much too subjective."

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Amber Hurdle

"I only sound intelligent when there's a good script writer around."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm not interested in having an orchestra sound like itself. I want it to sound like the composer."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm better for it and I prefer to keep things simple and see what sounds I can get out of my head and hands rather than relying on a sound that someone else created."

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Amber Hurdle

"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."

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Amber Hurdle

"I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is."

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"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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"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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"People out there maybe know who Junior Parker is and some of those Sun Records blues guys."
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"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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