Carl Perkins famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.
-- Carl Perkins

#Song #Rocks #Bed
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

#Names #Shoes #Low Self Esteem
That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.
-- Carl Perkins

#Simple #Sound #Corny
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

#Dream #Gold #Looks
I only know two cats in this business that really had it all; Elvis was one of those guys, the other was Ricky Nelson. There was a difference in those two guys though. Elvis moved...Ricky never had to; he stood flat footed and captivated his audience with his good looks. We grew up with him; those who didn't missed something. History books are gonna have to say that he played a big role in Rock 'n' Roll music.... and he did it his way.
-- Carl Perkins

#Book #Cat #Rocks
My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.
-- Carl Perkins

#Dad #Guitar #Firsts
Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.
-- Carl Perkins

#Love #Heart
Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.
-- Carl Perkins

#Past #Night #Doors

I wanted to be different and original but still have it be something my fans could get into. There also are some big, beautiful ballads. I told my producers that I wanted tracks that are going to blow up in the clubs, but I also wanted songs that were very melodic and with a lot of instrumentation.
Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.
A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
I think the fans really wanna hear the songs the way they sound on the record.
Truth is, you make albums, and some of those songs are hits, and some of the greatest hits albums have songs that weren't hits. You have a career, the reason why we're still around 10 years is that we do have successful songs.
I had a feeling it was gonna work out because not only did I enjoy the music and hit it off with the guys, but I was into theatrical rock and was willing to wear makeup and do anything to make it.
I knew I was destined to be a rock star. I just knew it, like I've always had the power of foresight. I feel right now exactly the way I felt after I finished mixing my first solo album 'New York Groove'.
Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened.
The joke that you laid in the bed that was me.
It was Mrs. Campbell, for instance, who, on a celebrated occasion, threw her companion into a flurry by describing her recent marriage as "the deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue."

Carl Perkins famous quotes

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