Either be hot or cold. If you are lukewarm, the Lord will spew you forth from His mouth.
Hippies? Why, I'm the original.
I'm a rompin', stompin', piano playing son of a bitch. A mean son of a bitch.
If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.
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.
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.
Y'know, there's nothin' like tearing up a good club now and then.
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!
Many of Jerry Lee Lewis' piano techniques have been adopted by several future piano-playing musicians, such as Elton John, Ben Folds, and Billy Joel.
Lewis' parents had to mortgage their farm in order to buy him his first piano.
On November 23, 1976, Elvis Presley invited Jerry Lee Lewis to visit him at Graceland. However, Presley's security was unaware that Jerry Lee would be coming, and Lewis had a gun on his dashboard, given to him by a local sheriff. Security asked Lewis why he was carrying a gun with him, and Lewis jokingly replied "I'm not here to kill Elvis, if that's what you're worried about," however the guard was still suspicious. The sheriff who gave Lewis the gun cleared things up for them all.
He almost became the king of rock and roll, but all hopes of that were crushed when he married his 2nd cousin.
He was portrayed by Waylon Payne in the 2005 Walk the Line.
On his 41st birthday as a joke he pointed a gun at his bass player, Butch Owens, thinking it wasn't loaded and shot him in the chest. He lived through the experience.
He had two sons, both of whom died, and one daughter.
He had an alcohol and drug problem that he checked himself into the Betty Ford Clinic.
He was played by actor Dennis Quaid in the 1989 Great Balls of Fire.
After the controversy with his marriage to his 2nd cousin he was instantly dropped by Sun Records.
After it was discovered that he had married his 13 year old 2nd cousin, he vanished from the music scene for many years.
He was the pioneer of Piano Rock.
His first record was in 1954.
His parents were Elmo and Mamie Lewis.
He married his 13 year old 2nd cousin.
He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986.
His first son was killed in a car accident.
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