My Conga people [fans] will find me anywhere I go.

When I went to do "Carson" that night, they wanted us to do two songs, but we were a brand new band. "Conga" hadn't…

— Gloria Estefan

For the rest of my life, the one song that people will remember -- regardless -- is "Conga" . . . I never get…

— Gloria Estefan

The basic success of the conga came from ...that basic principle of African music and dance: everybody participates. The conga eradicated the distinction between…

— Ned Sublette

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

— Big Sean

“With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that…

— Patricia Schultz

I don't get the conga line started. I'm not a great choice if the goal of the evening is just a celebration. But if…

— Seth Meyers

I think Ross Noble is the only person that I've seen really storm a stand-up slot at a festival, and that was when he…

— Marcus Brigstocke

I started out by myself, but it eventually turned into a trio by the mid-'60s - a conga drum and another guitarist. And that's…

— Richie Havens

As a fan, I'm distraught, but as a cartoonist looking at new vacant spaces in 2400 newspapers, well, behind me, my cats are dancing…

— Scott Adams

I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas…

— Tommy Bolin

I think people who basically do one thing like Eric Clapton is great. But I've always enjoyed playing different kinds of music and playing…

— Jack Bruce

Chano Pozo created the role of the conga soloist in the modern band, somewhat th way Coleman Hawkins created the solo tenor sax.

— Ned Sublette

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were…

— Terry Pratchett

I have now seen sucrose beaches and water a very bright blue. I have seen an all-red leisure suit with flared lapels. I have…

— David Foster Wallace

Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections.

— Diane Ackerman