Lightnin Quotes

#1. We live in an age lit by lightnin'; after the flash, we're blind again.

T Bone Burnett

#2. It a heasy t'ing to live for de lightnin' crack hillumination of possession.
It heasy to hide in de dark o' faith, pretendin' dat anyt'in' dat skitter an' scuttle in de night is jus' bad himagination.
It a heasy t'in' jus' to stay where you at. Grow roots. Vegetate. Be a potato.

Dave McKean

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Girl, I'd warn you that God Almighty's goin' to strike you dead, exceptin' I been warnin' your mama that for years, and he in his infinite mercy has so far seen fit to withhold his lightnin'.

Tom Robbins

#6. 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

#7. I am so mean I've handcuffed lightnin' and thrown thunder in jail.

Muhammad Ali

#8. 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

#9. When I was a kid, I used to see apparitions and have hallucinations, and my entire perception of the world was badly disoriented. And I had kind of a chaotic childhood because of that. I've really hung onto it, though. Because I actually like those feelings.

Jim Woodring

#10. It's a sin to be rich, but it's a low down shame to be poor.

Lightnin' Hopkins

#11. I've now loved two men in my life, and I've lost them both. Losing them hurts, but their lives taught me so much about living that what they taught me somehow overshadows the loss.

R.K. Ryals

#12. I thought I'd miss cursing, but I actually don't. I still feel like I can get my point across without real harsh language.

Kevin Dillon

#13. It was difficult to define her beyond saying that she seemed to exist only as a hostess, not so much from any exaggerated instinct of hospitality as because she could not sustain life except in a crowd.

Edith Wharton

#14. Path does not spam users. Invites on Path are never sent without a user's consent - any allegations to the contrary are false.

Dave Morin

#15. 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

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

Lightnin' Hopkins

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

Lightnin' Hopkins

#18. This race is not for the swift, but for the smart, for the one who knows himself as the winner

Burning Spear

#19. In our culture, imitation-based experience dominates reality-based experience. I find this an awful thing. But there are artists who know from the bottom of their souls that art is about the experience of reality. The reason we have art is because you can't get a real experience from the world.

Richard Tuttle

#20. Self confidence plays an important part in every aspect of man's life.

Dalai Lama

#21. I am not now, nor will I ever be, a candidate for offensive coordinator of Iowa.

Marco Rubio

#22. God's call on our lives is often surprising and usually is based on God's ability to see how our various elements in the past might fit together to accomplish God's purposes in the present.

Adam Hamilton