Rockabilly Quotes

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America. (Wanda Jackson)

To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk's energy and feeling, but the players were much better.

Brian Setzer

For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.

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.

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.

Brian Setzer

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

Buck Owens

We weren't afraid to mix some crazy styles into the standard rockabilly look. We also took a lot of different musical influences that were part of that era.

Brian Setzer

I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.

Dick Dale

If you went to school in Nashville, you were aware of all those '60s rockabilly people.

Kim Dickens

I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids. (Katy Perry)

I obviously had my reggae, but I got quite into rockabilly when I was a kid, because I was trying to find something that represented me as a white person.

Paul Simonon