Boogie Woogie Quotes

#1. Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#2. I was always small. I was a leadoff hitter growing up, until I was 13 or 14 years old and had a little growth spurt and started hitting home runs.

Ryan Braun

#3. My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit up was boogie-woogie or something out of the Louie Jordan period of sometimes big bands, and then all kinds of things.

Robbie Robertson

#4. Rock'n'roll is nothing but Boogie Woogie with stuff on top of it. And if you're black, they name it rhythm'n'blues, and if you're white, they name it rock'n'roll. So, I don't give a ... You know.

Ike Turner

#5. I don't believe in ghosts - not the scary white sheet, boogie-woogie type of ghost anyway. And yet ... I don't disbelieve either. I'm kind of sitting on the ghost fence, dangling my legs on both sides, not sure which way to jump. I think I might be here for a while.

Karen Tayleur

#6. I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

Mose Allison

#7. Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

Jerry Lee Lewis

#8. He pulls my swaddled figure close to his chest and I shatter. Two three four fifty thousand pieces of feeling stab me in the heart, melt into drops of warm honey that soothe the scars in my soul.

Tahereh Mafi

#9. Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview
you'll be interviewing the next guy.

Tony Romo

#10. The daemoniac rattle and wheeze of a blasphemous organ, choking and rumbling out the mockeries of hell in a cracked, sardonic bass.

H.P. Lovecraft

#11. I heard a young black pianist. He was a teenager, I was eight years old, and he was playing boogie-woogie, and he just knocked me out. He thought he was alone in the old barn on the beat-up upright piano, but I was hiding in the corner so he wouldn't see me.

Mike Stoller

#12. I'd always used humour as a weapon, as a protection. But being able to make people laugh is a way of not getting in too deep; it's a quick, transient fix.

Michelle Gomez

#13. In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my little boogie-woogie thing that I did, so I did my little boogie-woogie thing. I had a very high-pitched voice.

Nellie McKay

#14. I am only satisfied insofar as I feel 'Broadway Boogie Woogie' is a definite progress, but even about this picture I am not quite satisfied. There is still too much of the old in it.

Piet Mondrian

#15. You don't have to carry it by yourself.

Leslye Walton

#16. When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story.

Stephen King

#17. No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.

China Machado

#18. One needs to be right before getting righteous.

Walter Darby Bannard

#19. Simple English is no one's mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

Jacques Barzun

#20. Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Langston Hughes

#21. If God didn't mean for us to use drugs, It would never have made us such curious monkeys, nor given us so many interesting vegetables.

Charles L. Smith

#22. We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a little boogie woogie. The big bands.

Jay McShann

#23. One night I was layin' down,
I heard Papa talkin' to Mama,
I heard Papa say to let that boy boogie-woogie.
'Cause it's in him and it's got to come out.

John Lee Hooker

#24. A choice to listen to the chaos your mind creates or the whispers of intuitive wisdom from the heart.

Steven Redhead

#25. The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of imagining a new primary colour,or, indeed, of creating a new sun and a new sky for it to move in.

C.S. Lewis

#26. It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues ... It's called rock now.

Chuck Berry

#27. The global question is why you came to the earth

Sunday Adelaja

#28. True Boogie-Woogie I conceive as homogeneous in intention with mine in painting: destruction of melody, which is the equivalent of destruction of natural appearance, and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means - dynamic rhythm.

Piet Mondrian

#29. People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had a bit to do with one of those traditions.

Johnny Otis

#30. The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.

Patti Page

#31. The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, my mother and uncle played the piano. This was post-war Britain, and they played boogie woogie and blues, which was the underground music of the time.

Jools Holland

#32. All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.

Van Morrison