Top 22 Lightnin Hopkins Quotes
#1. The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.
Ted Nugent
#2. ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake ... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".
Billy Gibbons
#3. Lightnin' Hopkins was something of a fixture on the Houston coffee house scene so we were witness to eccentric blues brilliance close up. Then, believe it or not, along came the wave of the English cats like John Mayall, Eric Clapton and the Stones embracing the great American art form - the blues.
Billy Gibbons
#4. Lightnin' Hopkins taught us, "the rubber on a wheel is faster than the rubber on a heel" and Muddy Waters taught us "you don't have to be the best one; just be a good 'un" .. that just about says it all, always strive to be a good 'un ...
Billy F. Gibbons
#5. In many a poetic work, one gets here and there, instead of representation merely a title indicating that this or that was supposedto be represented here, that the artist has been prevented from doing it and most humbly asks to be kindly excused.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
#6. I want to live my life so my aura, when it leaves, is very bright.
Oprah Winfrey
#8. Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.
Dean Koontz
#9. One is Christianized to the extent that he is a Christianizer. One is evangelized to the extent that he is an evangelist.
Leon Joseph Suenens
#10. I would get ill before going onstage - something about getting in front of people, and if they don't laugh, I'm a bomb. I got over it when somebody laughed.
Tim Conway
#11. Iculous because at his age he had not enjoyed
that which all fiction taught him was the most important
thing in life; but he had the unfortunate gift of seeing things
as they were, and the reality which was offered him differed
too terribly from the ideal of his dreams.
W. Somerset Maugham
#12. I don't really read the tabloids, and you never know if what's being printed is true or not.
Leona Lewis
#13. Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.
Wislawa Szymborska
#14. As things stand now the feudal lords are content to look on while the shogunate carries on in a highhanded manner. Neither the lords nor the shogun can be depended upon, and so our only hope lies in grass-roots heroes.
Yoshida Shoin
#15. I'm obviously younger, much better looking [then Jeorge W.Bush].He didn't veto things, he didn't bring order and fiscal restraint.
Stephen Colbert
#16. 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
#17. At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable.
Mark V. Olsen
#19. I had the one thing you need to be a blues singer, I was born with the blues.
Lightnin' Hopkins
#21. Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you.
Oscar Wilde
#22. Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
