Happy, happy fashion. There is not much more to it than that.
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.
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.
A lot of fellows nowadays have a B. A. , M. D. , or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J. O. B.
Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill.
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.
I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.
You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you. Far otherwise; your silence utters very loud: you have no oracle to speak, no wisdom to offer, and your fellow men have learned that you cannot help them. Doth not wisdom cry, and understanding put forth her voice? We would be well to do likewise.
Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.
I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.