Brian Setzer Quotes

You have got to make new music, that is the way that I look at it anyway.

I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.

I've never been one to just play safe music and think that's all there is to it.

We always want to do covers, but we found it kind of boring to do covers of bands in our genre, and we were always asked to do those.

Pop music is so structured, and I'm excited to try and challenge that in my own work.

You need the past as a guideline. The history of music is a good basis, but to escape that stuff, that tortuous rulebook, you have to learn it first. It's kind of like religion - once you've written the Bible, that's it, move on.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

What I want to happen is to be really creative, and to play something new in the improvisations, every time.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I love to get to that place where I don't know what kind of music I'm doing; I don't know if it's any good. I don't know if it's anything. It's a big question mark. The idea is to have interesting results. That's my bottom line.

I feel that when you care about your music, taking risks is something you should do to keep things exciting.

I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music.

The only intention I've ever had creatively, as a musician, is to be as different from myself as possible.

Nothing I'm doing musically is revolutionary in any way, shape, or form.

Especially with Fantomas, i'm just trying to stretch out what the band can do. Figuring out, really, on the job or on recordings, what I can or can't get away with.

I wanted to try a different way of making music. That's what made me try different things with my voice.

When some artistes give a hit song, they keep repeating themselves in the same genre. I always try to create something new.

I think to try to make new music and new ideas, you have to push the boundaries of existing music.

To be able to take music and do something as profoundly original as what we did with the Allman Brothers, you've got to put some time into it.

I try to take the foundations of what music is and add some type of twist to it.

I am optimistic about the future of music.

When I listen to music, there's usually some aspect of that music that I like, and that's what I take and try to bring into my own music. Bringing in other musicians to collaborate with is a good way for me to test out new ways or make music that I might have not discovered on my own.

I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.

In terms of music, I can try anything I want, even something that doesn't work at all, because I'm not putting my career in jeopardy.

I think it's always important to constantly keep the band on their toes and try new things that you hope will work. That's how 'Apologize' was born, and maybe down the line another little song will be born by that mentality. I've always really liked that song.