Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Jerry Lee Lewis

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American musician Jerry Lee Lewis.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Jerry Lee Lewis is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed the Killer, he has been described as "rock n' roll's first great wild man and one of the most influential pianists of the 20th century." A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. "Crazy Arms" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with the major hits "Great Balls of Fire", "Breathless", and "High School Confidential". However, his rock and roll career faltered in the wake of his marriage to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old cousin.

American - Musician | Born: September 29, 1935

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Normally, things are viewed in these little segmented boxes. There's classical, and then there's jazz; romantic, and then there's baroque. I find that very dissatisfying. I was trying to find the thread that connects one type of music - one type of musician - to another, and to follow that thread in some kind of natural, evolutionary way.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I work to please my audience.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Other people - they practice and they practice... these fingers of mine, they got brains in 'em. You don't tell them what to do - they do it. God given talent.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I've always showed up. If I got paid.

Jerry Lee Lewis

When they look back on me I want 'em to remember me not for all my wives, although I've had a few, and certainly not for any mansions or high livin' money I made and spent. I want 'em to remember me simply for my music.

Jerry Lee Lewis

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Jerry Lee Lewis

I never set fire to a piano. I'd like to have got away with it, though. I pushed a couple of them in the river. They wasn't any good.

Jerry Lee Lewis

I've learned to be one of the hardheadedest cats in the world. I've learned that.

Jerry Lee Lewis

All you gotta do honey is kinda stand in one spot, wiggle around just a little bit.

Jerry Lee Lewis

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

Jerry Lee Lewis

I never said I was the King Of Rock'n' Roll. I said simply that I'm the best

Jerry Lee Lewis

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

Jerry Lee Lewis

She didn't mean to be unkind, why she even woke me up to say good-bye.

Jerry Lee Lewis

A lot of people say Jerry Lee Lewis done wrong, but that has yet to be proven in the eyes of God.

Jerry Lee Lewis

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain, too much love drives a man insane. You broke my will, but what a thrill. Goodness gracious, great balls of fire.

Jerry Lee Lewis

Don't Be Cruel is the greatest rock 'n' roll record ever made.

Jerry Lee Lewis