Brian Setzer Quotes

There hasn't been anything real since grunge. That was the last movement led by music or an art form.

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I've always liked funk and rock and everything.

I love '90s grunge and punk.

When 5150 came out rock was king. Post Nirvana and Pearl Jam 1996 is a different story.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

I never really followed grunge.

I'm always into rock n' roll and indie rock.

I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

So many bands would say that they were alternative, or they were this or that... 'Heavy metal' was a pretty uncool word after about 1992; it was almost like, 'Stay away.' But it didn't bother us one bit. And our fans were the best ever.

Nothing wrong with pop!

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

To me, the sax is rock n' roll, even though electric guitars kind of pushed it aside for a while.

Soundgarden are kind of the masters of writing songs that aren't pop cliches.

I didn't hate Nirvana. That was more of a media-constructed this-versus-that thing.

If I opened a record store, it wouldn't be all punk rock and esoterica.

In my elementary days, I took a liking to rock & roll music. I dabbed into Marilyn Manson, which became my favorite.

We usually go to metal and rock festivals, and Glastonbury is not like that.

I used to think of 'alternative rock' as a radio format, kind of the way 'indie rock' used to have more meaning. But it means different things depending on where you are or what country you're in.

We're more of a rock band and we have a punk influence and a pop influence.

What I do is a bit broader in scope than a heavy metal band like Iron Maiden, Motorhead, ACDC and so on.

I'm not exclusively into R&B. I like Usher.