Lightnin' Hopkins famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.
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It's a sin to be rich, but 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.
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Well, I don't want no bald headed woman.
-- Lightnin' Hopkins
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Sometimes to heal, you must first get hurt.
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I can't do this Ash. It's killing me. Having you this close and not touching you is driving me insane. You're his Ash. You're his. You made your choice and I understand why you chose him. I don't hold it against you but dammit Ash it hurts
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It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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The Holy Spirit is just as truly in us when He makes no sign as when the fountains of joy are overflowing, or the waters of peace are softly refreshing our weary and troubled heart.
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No matter how strong a condom is, it won't protect you from a broken heart.
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His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.
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He would not stay for me, and who can wonder? He would not stay for me to stand and gaze. I shook his hand, and tore my heart in sunder, And went with half my life about my ways.
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I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
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George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head.
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