Quotes from Jerry Lee Lewis

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

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

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

I work to please my audience.

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.

I am right. I`m always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

Down in Louisiana we call that Boogie Woogie!

If the Lord made anything better than a woman he kept it for himself.

My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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!

I am right. I'm always right. One time I thought I was wrong, I found out I was right.

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

Hippies? Why, I'm the original.

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.