5+ Lightnin' Hopkins Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Lightnin' Hopkins quotes and sayings.

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

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

Well, I don't want no bald headed woman. — Lightnin' Hopkins

I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues. — Lightnin' Hopkins

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