I work to please my audience.

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

I've always showed up. If I got paid.

These fingers of mine got brains in 'em.

I'm dragging the audience to hell with me

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

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.

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.

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

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.

Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

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