Pinetop 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.

Pinetop Perkins

#2. Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot and a pattern in the development of his life story - a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.

Eric Hoffer

#3. I have never seen a more desperate symbol of hope since the world ended and I've never felt the world more desperate to make a mockery of it.

Courtney Summers

#4. I don't know how you can justify leaving any engagement behind in the social Web of 2011.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#5. In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Mignon McLaughlin

#6. Their own life together was like a subtle watercolor sketch, invisible to other people. They gave the world what it required of them and for the rest of the time were content to be forgotten.

Andrei Makine

#7. I always knew my sexual prowess has the power to save lives." "You can turn anything into an ego boost, can't you?" "I have a healthy sense of my own worth. But I have an even better sense of yours." "Aww ...

Rachel Vincent

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

Pinetop Perkins

#9. Gratitude is a divine emotion. It fills the heart, not to bursting; it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss. Devoured in haste, I do not know its flavor.

Charlotte Bronte

#10. 'Middlesex' by Jeffrey Eugenides left me both moved and, at times, laughing out loud in delight.

Kim Edwards

#11. I play blues old-timey style.

Pinetop Perkins

#12. Happy people make happy families.

Christina Engela

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

Pinetop Perkins

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

Pinetop Perkins

#15. 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.

Pinetop Perkins

#16. My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.

Augusten Burroughs

#17. I'm running a war, not a tea party, okay? I have to worry about what happens if murderous lunatics with insane powers escape into the outside world. Feelings and empathy don't get a lot of attention when I'm juggling concerns like that.

Robert J. Crane

#18. The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just knew it from the beginning. From Arkansas? Shoot.

Pat Paulsen

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

Pinetop Perkins

#20. If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?

C.S. Lewis

#21. Pinetop could find the cracks and fill them in and be the glue and mortar of the whole band.

Bob Corritore

#22. Henry loves me. Henry is here, finally, now, finally. And I love him.

Audrey Niffenegger