Fats Domino famous quotes

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.
-- Fats Domino

#Work

Clean living keeps me in shape. Righteous thoughts are my secret. And New Orleans home cooking.
-- Fats Domino

#Home #New Orleans #Cooking

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.
-- Fats Domino

#Rocks #Want #Stuff

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.
-- Fats Domino

#Home #Years #Care

I found my thrill on Blueberry Hill,
-- Fats Domino

#Thrill #Hills #Found

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.
-- Fats Domino

#Rock And Roll #New Orleans #Rocks

I use to love you honey, 'til you spent all my money.
-- Fats Domino

#Relationship #Love You #Use

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

#Honesty #Letters #Causes

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.

In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour.

There is no such thing as unfortunate genius; if a man or woman is fit for work, God appoints the field.

What luck for rulers that men do not think.

Whenever a man makes haste, God too hastens with him.

Almost anything is easier to get into than to get out of.

Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable.