I’ve always showed up. If I got paid.
Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!
Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.
When they look back on me I want ‘em to remember me not for all my wives, although I’ve had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin’ money I made and spent. I want ’em to remember me simply for my music.
If I’m going to Hell, I’m going there playing the piano.
Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.
I’m dragging the audience to hell with me.
These fingers of mine got brains in ’em.
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.
She didn’t mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.
All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.
Don’t Be Cruel is the greatest rock ‘n’ roll record ever made.
I’ve learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I’ve learned that.
I never set fire to a piano. I’d like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn’t any good.
Hippies? Why, I’m the original.
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.
I’m coming on home to you instead cause they’re all too ugly tonight.
A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.
I am right. I’m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.