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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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Asa Don Brown

"Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul."

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Asa Don Brown

"I listen to music constantly while writing."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is the song of eternal love which touches the soul and fills us with joy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is the language of the universe, which everyone, including all animals, can understand."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilized into time and tune."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music can touch that deepest portion of the soul where nothing else can reach. It can fill our hearts with indescribable ecstasy."

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Asa Don Brown

"Beauty of music enlightens the soul and fills it with ecstasy."

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Asa Don Brown

"If I had the choice, I would sing only love songs."

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Asa Don Brown

"Music made me kinder. Music made me a lover."

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Asa Don Brown

"I want music, I don't want stupidity, (Hey)... (mey)... I don't give a shit, so far it sounds like stupidity changes tracks and it's on the track and it waits to appear!"

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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
"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."

People

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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."

Music

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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
"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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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
"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 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
"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
"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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