Fats Domino Quotes
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.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
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I want to make smart choices.
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I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.
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I don't even remember the last time I bought an album, honestly.
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I don't want to be known as the one who makes movies for older people.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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When people read a novel 600 pages long, six months pass, and all they will remember are five pages. They don't remember the text - instead, they remember the sensations the text gives them.
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I have to remember for every kid saying something awful, there's a kid saying something great.
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Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.
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I don't want to let the rest of this country drift into the abyss. I want to fight for it.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
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Spitfire asked me if I had a problem talking about Van Halen or Extreme. I really don't. There are people who are just going to want to know what it was like to play with Eddie.
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If I would go up on a high note, Eddie would want a low one. That's how petty the situation had become.
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Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.
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You'll never get what you really want. All you can do is give what you really want!
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I try to keep the music fresh in my head. And I don't always listen to rap; I listen to a little bit of everything: R&B, rock.
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At least with me, the match starts much, much earlier than the actual match.
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I love the idea of the amateur - that's what popular culture is all about. But what the Internet's doing is professionalizing everyone's amateuristic impulses.
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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.
