Woogie Quotes
11 quotes by 10 authors
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?
— Langston Hughes
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It used to be called boogie-woogie, it used to be called blues, used to be called rhythm and blues...It's called rock now.
— Chuck Berry
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I went through the whole number, you know. The swing era, the boogie woogie era, the bebop era. Thelonious Monk is still one of my…
— Mose Allison
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People are going to wake up to this great reservoir of music we've created in America - cakewalks, one-steps, boogie-woogie, country and western. I had…
— Johnny Otis
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All the girls walk by dressed up for each other, and the boys do the boogie woogie on the corner of the street.
— Van Morrison
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The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.
— Patti Page
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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Listen closely: You'll hear their feet Beating out and beating out a…
— Langston Hughes
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In high school, I was always into Jerry Lee Lewis, and they decided they needed a piano player for the jazz band. I had my…
— Nellie McKay
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My mother told me when I was a toddler and in the crib that they would have music playing, and the thing when I lit…
— Robbie Robertson
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We used to play the Savoy Ballroom, and we always had a boogie tune in the set. Bands like Tommy Dorsey used to do a…
— Jay McShann
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Hey, niggers! Turn that jungle music down! Woogie boogie, nigger! Woogie boogie!
— Dave Chappelle
Who Wrote These Woogie Quotes
10 authors contributed a total of 11 Woogie Quotes as follows: