Quotes About Mambo

I got them voodoo blues, Them evil hoo-doo blues. Petro Loa won't leave me alone; Every night I hear the zombies moan. Lord, I got them mean ol' voodoo blues. Zu-Zu was a mambo, she loved a hungan man; Messin' with Erzuli wasn't part of her plan. The spell of the tom-tom turned her into a slave, And now Baron Samedi's dancin' on her grave. Yeah, she's got them voodoo blues, Them bad ol' hoo-doo blues … When

For example, the Cha Cha—that's straight out of Haitian and Cuban voodooism, chacha being the name of a rattle used in voodoo ceremonies. Or mambo—the voodoo word for a priestess of the supernatural religion.

Elvis Presley's music never meant anything to me. Mambo was the music I loved - it spoke to me.

The Chinese had this empire-degeneration mambo wired. They actually devised a formula for it, since after several centuries a pattern emerged that was so regular you could pretty much set your sundial by it: Repeat, ad nauseum, for thousands of years. It's

Latin people love to dance. Nothing is more powerful than a Latin man doing 'Mambo Number 5' by himself.

Now you are dead, your heart throbbing too fast for the doctors at the veterans' hospital to keep the beat, their pill bottles rattling, maracas in a mambo for the doomed.