Rockabilly Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.