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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I remember meeting the likes of Johnny Carson and Jimmy Stewart for the first time and being completely starstruck.
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I remember my father had a sermon he used to preach when we were in Florida, in which he gave a reference to the Southern Cross-about the stars, the colors, in the Southern Cross, which thrilled me very much. I must have been around 5 years old. ... Now, it turns out that the Southern Cross itself does have one red star, together with three blue ones.
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History, at its best, always tells us as much indirectly about ourselves as it does directly about our predecessors, and it is often most revealing when it deals with episodes and phenomena that we find repulsive.
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If you could really guarantee that the money would be spent on something more worthwhile, I'd say, absolutely, scrap the space program, but it never works that way.
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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.
