Domino Quotes

One of the reasons I wanted a sax in the band was that I loved Fats Domino’s ‘Blueberry Hill.’

I was growing up at a time when music was growing and changing so fast. I had learned all the big band sounds of the 1940s, Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey. But then along came Chuck Berry, Les Paul, Fats Domino and I figured out how to make their music as well.

I really got back to my New Orleans roots – my grandfather played with Fats Domino. We had to leave after Katrina, but I feel like, spiritually, I’m back there.

I need to tone up, as I eat a lot of fast food. I love Maccy D’s, Subway and Domino’s.

Our show is less about a girl who is doing miracles and more about the domino effect of this girl’s life, and how everyone else is affected. Our show seems to be a questioning show as opposed to an action sort of fairy tale.

Domino is all about… as an actress and as the character that is going to be on the screen, you already allude to it: it’s all about the sass.

Antoine ‘Fats’ Domino was a 1950s rock n’ roll pioneer, a larger-than-life New Orleans figure, and a role model for the African-American community in a time of deep segregation.

Where Charlie Christian left off, Papoose started a new thing; he was an innovator of the guitar. The things he did during his recording career with Fats Domino in the Fifties and Sixties until the day he died was as much a part of the music of New Orleans as anybody else has had to offer.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino’s alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

‘Smallville’ is like a Domino’s pizza. While you’re eating, you’re thinking, ‘This is good, and it reminds me of pizza, but there’s not enough flavor in each bite.’ That’s the feeling you have the entire time with ‘Smallville’ – that it’s just about to be good, but it never is.

Wealth is not a pizza, where if I have too many slices you have to eat the Domino’s box.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

As you have two more huge characters as Cable and Domino, ‘Deadpool’ is growing, and it’s making ‘X-Force’ franchise bigger and bigger.

My mom and dad played this music all the time when I was growing up, so to me songs by Jerry Lee and Fats Domino are the classics, they’re the best songs ever.

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush’s ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government.

I’m a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, ‘What kind of music do you like to listen to?’ and I said, ‘Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,’ and they literally said, ‘Either forget about that or leave.’

I would just like to say something to all the women out there. You’re not the only one that’s probably going through something, so I feel as though if one person speaks up, maybe it – hopefully – will be a domino effect.

My worlds collide. When one things happens, it just starts a domino effect – everything else goes on.

Abortion does not just hurt women. Abortion hurts a family, and it has a domino effect of hurting those related and close to those families through the grief and reality of losing a child to abortion.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.

Growing up on Franklin Road in Nashville, I had everyone from Johnny Cash to Fats Domino swinging by my house to talk with my mom about my dad. So I had some pretty diverse influences, and I think that shows in my music.

I’m hoping there’ll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.

Here is the real domino theory – gay man to gay man, bisexual man to straight woman, addict mother to newborn baby, they all fall down and someday it will come to you.

I loved rock and roll when that came in, Bill Haley, Little Richard, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, all those great records. So I begged my mom and dad for a guitar, which eventually they did get me for Christmas, but it went out of tune very quickly, and it hurt my fingers.

I would listen to Little Richard and Fats Domino and Chuck Berry, and I would listen to how they played their riffs, and after I taught myself that, I taught myself to play my own kind of stuff.

If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn’t last very long. I can’t go to a museum – I’ll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of… it’s sort of like a domino effect.

We’ve had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we’ve got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

I love Domino’s. I hold a regular Domino night in my apartment. I’ll admit that I get a little too serious and I’m quite competitive. I don’t like to lose.

Every night, you fight for that standing ovation at the end of the night. And if you do something wrong, the domino effect is chaotic. And you must not allow yourself to make mistakes whatsoever. So in that case, theater, it’s fascinating because of the discipline that you need.

But, I enjoy music from lots of people. And you also have to also remember that I grew up in a household where people like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and so many others were at mama’s house. So, I heard everything growing up.