When I was a kid I used to scoot under the table, and whenever company would come around you know or my sisters or parents would tell me, go under the table and I'd do it because it was entertainment for the family or aunts or whatever. And one time at the Paramount when I first did it, you know, Brooklyn Paramount, I did it in the act during an instrumental and it got a big ovation and so I coined it as one of the things I should do in the act. And since I've been doing it.

All I want for Christmas is a rock n roll electric guitar.

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Prejudice doesn't make me mad. It just - I guess 'pisses me off' is the word.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

If your playing basic music, its just rock.

Maybellene, why can't you be true?