Fats Domino

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.

When we play to an audience, I never would use dirty lyrics.

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'.

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.

I don't know why music should make people want to fight. It always makes me happy.

I write tunes about what people say, whatever they say.

If it sounds catchy, I put it in a tune.

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.

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.

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.

My wife cooks the way she wants to cook and I cook the way I want to cook.

I cook a lot.

I've got to keep working, you know. After all these years it gets into your blood.

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 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.

I feel I've been blessed.

As a boy in New Orleans, I had all sorts of jobs - an iceman, made bed-springs, lumber yard.

I just feel better when I'm performing.

If I have any kind of problem, it goes away when I hit the stage.

Really, I don't feel I'm a great piano player, but other people think so.

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.

When you like somebody, I guess everything they do you like.

I play my music the same way because people expect it to sound exactly the way it does on the radio.