Johnny Gimble Quotes

#1. When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'

Johnny Gimble

#2. Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.

Johnny Gimble

#3. I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.

Johnny Gimble

#4. I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.

Johnny Gimble

#5. I've worked with Tim Burton five times, and it's just like being part of a family; life doesn't get much better than that.

Christopher Lee

#6. When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.

Johnny Gimble

#7. She knew little about herself and consequently little about others.

Elizabeth Goudge

#8. When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'

Johnny Gimble

#9. I was perfect for the circus. If she dared me, I'd do it. Love makes you stupid

Bruno Mars

#10. I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.

Johnny Gimble

#11. She was beginning to recognize it as the feeling of anger taken to such a level it was no longer possible to separate it from any other emotion or thought. In a way, it was a liberating sensation.

Martha Wells

#12. I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.

Johnny Gimble

#13. I see her as one great stampede of lips directed at the nearest derriere.

Noel Coward

#14. Better than an orgasm? Clearly the woman was having lousy orgasms.

Amy Andrews

#15. I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and ... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.

Johnny Gimble

#16. Revealed religion has no weight with me.

Benjamin Franklin

#17. It's just a real thrill when you're showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see 'em 'get it.'

Johnny Gimble

#18. I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.

Johnny Gimble

#19. To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.

Johnny Gimble

#20. Love is the unification of two equal opposites to create new love." ~ Amunhotep El Bey

Amunhotep El Bey

#21. I'm going to announce in the very near future, I'm going to lead by example and start paying 20 percent of my health insurance.

Terry Branstad

#22. I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.

Johnny Gimble

#23. When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.

Johnny Gimble

#24. I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.

Johnny Gimble

#25. I've always liked the stuff that kicks.

Johnny Gimble

#26. I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.

Johnny Gimble

#27. The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.

Johnny Gimble

#28. I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

Johnny Gimble

#29. My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.

Johnny Gimble