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 le….

Elvis Presleys' first album had more energy and more enthusiam than any other album at the time - when it was released it just blew everything else o….

The songwriting has never really stepped forward from the '50's..

I mean, what 16-year-old is going to listen to Doc Watson?.

The biggest challenge for me was Get Rhythm. I don't know why..

Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it..

I got cat class and I got cat style.

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

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 ….

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

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

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord pro….

To keep creating something with this type of music, you have to take it out of the box..

Veteran performers are dying off, and new acts simply aren't emerging on the national scene..

You had to pick something like Blue Suede Shoes because it's the flagship of the Sun label, but then I wanted to dig down and find something like Rak….

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….

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 wri….

,,, all around it would have to be Eddie Cochran, because it wasn't just music with him; it was his guitar playing, his look, his singing, I'd say th….

As a genre, rockabilly's post-Elvis profile has seldom been lower in the United States. Many labels that produced fresh bass-slappin' sides during th….

... so much of what we do now started in 1954 at Sun Records in Memphis Tennessee ... those guys were inventing that stuff (Rock & Roll) ... you can ….