Top 7 Pinetop Perkins Quotes

#1. 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.

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

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#3. I play blues old-timey style.

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#4. I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano.

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#5. I play any piano with a good tune.

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#6. 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.

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#7. What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years.

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