Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.

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.

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.

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 use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.

We are capable of learning.

If you dare try, you will succeed.

Friendship has splendors that love knows not. It grows stronger when crossed whereas obstacles kill love. Friendship resists time which wearies and severs couples. It has heights unknown to love.

Memories are meant to fade, Lenny. They're designed that way for a reason.

But I'm concerned about security.” My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.

A man kept his character even when he was insane.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake.

Still alive? (Randy) No. I’m a walking corpse. Can’t you tell? (Steele)

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.