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Lightnin Hopkins Quotes

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.

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

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

Lightnin' Hopkins
Singers, Needs, Born

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

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

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

Lightnin' Hopkins
Want, Wells, Sexually

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