Boogie Quotes

• 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 favorites. So a lot of these people had their effect on me.

  Mose Allison

  Swings, Numbers, People

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• Well, PT Anderson sent me a script of Boogie Nights which I let lay around my house for about three months, then one day I'm cleaning my office and decided that I'd better read this before the guy calls me back. I never put it down, bro.

  Luis Guzman

  Night, Office, House

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• I think it's too easy often to find a villain out of the headlines and to then repeat that villainy again and again and again. You know, traditionally, America has always looked to scapegoat someone as the boogie man.

  Edward Zwick

  Men, Thinking, America

  "Featured Filmmaker: Edward Zwick" by Stax, www.ign.com. March 4, 2002.

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• Don't blame it on the sunshine. Don't blame it on the moonlight. Blame it on the boogie.

  Michael Jackson

  Sunshine, Blame, Moonlight

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• When the world is on your shoulder, got to straighten up your act and boogie down.

  Michael Jackson

  Advice, World, Shoulders

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• Let the children use it, let the children lose it, let all the children boogie.

  David Bowie

  Dance, Children, Use

  Song: Starman, 1972

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• I’m not trying to hurt you; I’m trying to make you better.

  Shaun Thompson

  Hurt, Trying

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• Don't be jealous of my boogie.

  RuPaul

  Jealous, Being Jealous, Don't Be Jealous

  Song: Jealous Of My Boogie, Album: Champion

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• You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.

  Rosie Perez

  Steps

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• I woke up my pop in the middle of the night 'cause the boogie man's under my bed. My pop is this big, huge man, nothing can hurt him. I went running into his bedroom like, 'Daddy, Daddy, the boogie man's under the bed!' Pop opens one eye, he's like, 'Is the boogie man bigger than me?' 'Well, no Daddy, he's not.' 'Well, you got your choice: you can deal with the boogie man or you can deal with me.'

  Adam Ferrara

  Funny, Running, Hurt

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• I love the nightlife. I like to boogie.

  Greg Proops

  Nightlife

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• I belong to an improv group, I play cello, I have these phases - fencing, tae kwon do, baseball, ice hockey, boogie boarding in the summer, snowboarding in the winter.

  Ty Simpkins

  Summer, Baseball, Hockey

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• It takes committed, high energy, full-tilt boogie participation to have the kind of life you want.

  Nicholas Lore

  Energy, Tilt, Want

  Nicholas Lore (2012). “The Pathfinder: How to Choose Or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Leadership, Opportunity, Waiting

  Tama J. Kieves (2003). “This Time I Dance!: Trusting the Journey of Creating the Work You Love”, Tarcher

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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

  Rocks, Rhythm And Blues, Used

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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 - You think It's a happy beat? Listen to it closely: Ain't you heard something underneath like a - What did I say? Sure, I'm happy! Take it away! Dream Boogie Hey, pop! Re-bop! Mop! Y-e-a-h!

  Langston Hughes

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• Aching familiar in a way that made me wish I was still eight. Eight was before death or divorce or heartbreak. Eight was just eight. Hot dogs and peanut butter, mosquito bites and splinters, bikes and boogie boards. Tangled hair, sunburned shoulders, Judy Blume, in bed by nine thirty.

  Jenny Han

  Dog, Divorce, Eight

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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 a bit to do with one of those traditions.

  Johnny Otis

  Country, America, People

  "A Life in R&B / Johnny Otis looks back on his remarkable career, and at the end of an era" by Joel Selvin, www.sfgate.com. April 4, 2000.

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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

  Song, Titles, Santa

  "Patti Page, singer of Tennessee Waltz, dies at 85", www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2013.

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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

  Girl, Boys, Expression

  Song: Wild Night

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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

  Dream, Morning, Thinking

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.27, University of Missouri Press

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• I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn,
  Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken.
  Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down,
  Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around.

  Rakim

  Strong, Queens, Rap

  Song: Juice

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• Let's boogie,' he (Leo) said. 'Before I come to my senses

  Rick Riordan

  Said, Senses

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• I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Horror Stories, Guy

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• Boogie! I hate boogie, God, I mean, not the Chicago boogie like Willie Dixon or Howlin' Wolf, but all those awful white bands.

  Tom Verlaine

  Hate, Mean, White

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