Fats Domino
Everybody started callin' my music rock and roll, but it wasn't anything but the same rhythm and blues I'd been playin' down in New Orleans.Collection: Music
Some people say music's good for the soul and I believe that's right.Collection: Music
There are a lot of people that have followed my career, and that's something I'm really thankful for.Collection: Thankful
Teens always heard my music with their hearts. The beat was just happy. It didn't have color or hidden meaning.Collection: Music
I don't know why music should make people want to fight. It always makes me happy.Collection: Music
As long as I'm in New Orleans, I'm not away from home.
Rock 'n' Roll is just New Orleans rhythm and blues under a new name. It's got that Dixieland beat and that's what sells records.
I'm only happy when I'm on stage. Anything else is no fun.
I play the same for 60 people as I do for 6,000. I used to play in front of 60,000 people. No difference. Just play and sing.
I was lucky enough to write songs that carry a good beat and tell a real story that people could feel was their story, too - something that old people or the kids could both enjoy.
I feel I've been blessed.
I used to work in a lumberyard and that's where I first heard a number on a jukebox and I liked it. It was a piano number. It was called 'Swanee River Boogie' by Albert Ammonds.
I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.
When you like somebody, I guess everything they do you like.
My music was a mixture of everything New Orleans.
I've got to keep working, you know. After all these years it gets into your blood.
I'm never going off the road. Love the road. Lot of fun.
I just feel better when I'm performing.
If I have any kind of problem, it goes away when I hit the stage.
I like nice things. I like champagne.
My music is a very simple type, and that's why the kids have no trouble understanding it. They don't want to figure out what a musician does; they want to feel it.
Some 'people' think I'm a great singer. They don't know nothin'. I ain't no singer; I just talk in time with the beat and on pitch. That ain't singin'; that's talkin'.
I was 17 when I made my first record in 1949. I never thought about being professional.
I have a hard time pleasing myself with my songs. I have to do them over and over until I think I got them right. I'm always finding fault, but the people seem to like them. I always figure I can do something different that I wouldn't have already. I may not be right, but I don't want to be too far wrong.
I always had a piano. All of them sound good to me.
Only movement I've ever been involved in is when I push the piano across the stage.
When I was just starting out, I had $3,700 saved up. I went to Nashville on a job and saw this diamond ring in a window that cost $3,650. I took the money out of my savings account and bought it, 'cause I just had to have it.
I sing better when I'm hoarse.
When we play to an audience, I never would use dirty lyrics.
My music doesn't cause teen-age riot. There have been fights ever since there have been dances. They just publicize the trouble when rock 'n' roll is playing.
If it sounds catchy, I put it in a tune.
I try to make it so people understand me. I don't try to make it so people don't understand me. I want them to hear the words.
My wife has never been any place I played. She doesn't like ballrooms and, me, I'm crazy about them.
I used to make $27 a week.
I sing like I talk - soft, with all the words clear.
I guess my favorite is 'Blue Monday,' but that wasn't my biggest seller. The biggest was 'Blueberry Hill' and that's the one I get the most requests for. I can't get through a show without doing it once, and sometimes twice.
My wife cooks the way she wants to cook and I cook the way I want to cook.
I cook a lot.
If you like a person, then nothing they can do is wrong.
I love being on stage. I just wish all the musicians would like it like I do. I could stay out there three hours if the sound was good and the people were liking it.
As a boy in New Orleans, I had all sorts of jobs - an iceman, made bed-springs, lumber yard.
I play my music the same way because people expect it to sound exactly the way it does on the radio.
I'm just an ordinary piano player.
Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.
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.Collection: Rocks
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Inspirational
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.Collection: Home
I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.Collection: Thrill
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.Collection: Home