Quotes About Carl Perkins

#1. I am a cross between Carl Perkins and Led Zeppelin.

Ronnie Hawkins

#2. If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

Paul McCartney

#3. I worked with Carl Perkins on a number of shows. Live shows. He just showed up and played. He just killed. Killed! Man ... he was amazing!

Lesley Gore

#4. I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis ... not only were they personal friends.

Wanda Jackson

#5. I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

Robin Trower

#6. One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, in an open-air concert. Presley, I got to meet and go into his house and so forth. My wife says I should quit tellin' that story, 'cause they'll know how old I am.

William Sanderson

#7. My songs are personal music, they're not communal. I wouldn't want people singing along with me. It would sound funny. I'm not playing campfire meetings. I don't remember anyone singing along with Elvis, Carl Perkins or Little Richard.

Bob Dylan

#8. The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes' ... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

Josh Homme

#9. In any free society, the conflict between social conformity and individual liberty is permanent, unresolvable, and necessary.

Kathleen Norris

#10. My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

Carl Perkins

#11. When your destiny is calling, answer The call.

Jeanette Coron

#12. After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

Carl Perkins

#13. If it helped you get your music off the ground, I'm glad you done it.

Carl Perkins

#14. I have raged at the wall growing between myself and others. I expect intuitive, miraculous understanding, or else I'm disillusioned and don't want to struggle to make things clear.

Anais Nin

#15. That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Carl Perkins

#16. The price of the liberation of the white people is the liberation of the blacks - the total liberation, in the cities, in the towns, before the law, and in the mind.

James Baldwin

#17. You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

Carl Perkins

#18. Environment protection weighs the same in my life as my professional acting career.

Li Bingbing

#19. If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

Carl Perkins

#20. I am a Democrat and I love my party and I want them to have good policies and good candidates, so I hope to be supportive in some way, but I don't intend to be any kind of 'godfather' or something like that.

Tom Harkin

#21. Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

Carl Perkins

#22. A special spark rises
from the sorrow of a burning heart.
Have you ever heard
how the sigh of a broken heart
touches the Beloved?

Rumi

#23. Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

Carl Perkins