Words matter. These are the best Rockabilly Quotes from famous people such as Andra Day, Buck Owens, Brian Setzer, Jeff Buckley, Dick Dale, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I gleaned different style ideas over the years. In Southern California, there is a big rockabilly sub-culture. So when I would go to car shows, I would see women dressed like this. I had a teacher in high school that always had her Bette Paige bangs.
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.
To me, rockabilly music paralleled punk’s energy and feeling, but the players were much better.
The thing about a music career is that it ain’t over until the fat lady sings. Look at all the times people threw in the towel on Dylan – or Neil Young. Remember when Young was doing things in the ’80s like ‘Trans’ and the rockabilly album and being completely lambasted by critics who now think he is wonderful again?
I called it Rockabilly ’cause I was rocking the strums, which you’re not supposed to do.
That rockabilly sound wasn’t as simple as I thought it was.
I was a hop-around. I hung out with the rockabilly crew, the guys who were trying to be rappers, the funny kids.
Everybody told me that if I insisted on doing rockabilly music, I’d never have a chance of selling any records. In fact, I lost count of how many people told me to ditch it all together, in favour, I guess, of sounding like everybody else.
My style icons are Lucille Ball for her bouffant hair and all the updos, James Dean for his rockabilly style – the denim and rolled-up T-shirt thing. And I am also inspired by Dita Von Teese and Gwen Stefani. Their style is retro, but it’s still very feminine at the same time.
I like the Rockabilly look. My background is half Italian, half French. I wear cowboy boots and jeans.
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.
Ireland and America, music-wise, are very closely related. The Irish came over with their fiddles in hand, and you can hear it in the bluegrass and rockabilly. I love it when music from different countries combine.
For every rockabilly festival staged here, there are 10 held overseas.
I didn’t realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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.
