Pinetop Quotes & Sayings

I think that a lot of companies are still amazingly price sensitive. — Sanjay Kumar

What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did. — Pinetop Perkins

Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band. — Bob Corritore

The USA has turned into a great country to study corporate government corruption. — Steven Magee

I'm not a great flyer. It's ironic, since I'm in showbiz and have to fly at least twice a week. I try to sleep and blot it out. — Suzi Quatro

The music I listened to when I was a kid was Sonny Boy Williams and Pinetop Perkins. He was the one who had the most influence on my playing. I saw him through a window playing piano and I thought it was unbelievable somebody could move their fingers that fast. And this is how I got interested in piano. — Ike Turner

I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel. — Pinetop Perkins

The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl
everything. — Allan Sherman

If have nothing but life, I have everything. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I play any piano with a good tune. — Pinetop Perkins

If you wish for light, Be ready to receive light. — Rumi

Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. — William Shakespeare

What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years. — Pinetop Perkins

I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. — Pinetop Perkins

She's my meal, but she no longer feeds from me." "Try it anyway. Maybe find her a doughnut or something, — Amelia Hutchins

I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. — Pinetop Perkins

The smell of peppery warm cheese and thick, yeasty grilled bread was beginning to fill the air. She would give the sandwich to Della Lee when she got home, and while Della Lee ate the sandwich Josey would eat oatmeal pies and candy corn and packets of salty pumpkin seeds from her closet. — Sarah Addison Allen

I play blues old-timey style. — Pinetop Perkins