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"Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene."
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"I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."

"Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth."

"I think about dying. I've come to realize we all die alone in one way or another."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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