Lightnin' Hopkins Quotes

• I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Singers, Needs, Born

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• People have learned how to strum a guitar, but they don't have the soul. They don't feel it from the heart. It hurts me. I'm killin' myself to tell them how it is.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Hurt, Heart, Guitar

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• It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Politics, Sin, Shame

  Song: It's A Sin To Be Rich, It's A Low-Down Shame To Be Poor

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• So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I gotme some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised itup high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got mea tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Cutting, Guitar, Bridges

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• Well, I don't want no bald headed woman.

  Lightnin' Hopkins

  Want, Wells, Sexually

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