I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

Well, I wouldn't want to say that I started it (rock 'n' roll), but I don't remember anyone else before me playing that kind of stuff.

Everybody started calling my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playing down in New Orleans.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.

I traveled all over for about 50 years, I love a lot of places and I've been a lot of places, but I just don't care to leave home.

Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

Children teach us more than our elders because they are real reflector of our society.

The ability of one to affect many is scaling exponentially — and it's scaling for good and it's scaling for evil.

... what I fear in writing is the safe decision.

When you build a career, you should never imitate anybody.

See how the skilful lover spreads his toils.

As the artist matures she is continuously shaken by what she manages to discover: by the earth shifting beneath her feet once again, by her own amazed, ringing laughter.

I didn't hit the ball like I was 46. But I putted like I was 66.

After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.

I started writing plays, but the fact that plays don't last forever was too much for me to bear.

These are different animals now. They're starting to winnow out the weak at the fringe of the herd. We need to hurry or this could affect our snack situation.