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

- Lightnin' Hopkins

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

- Lightnin' Hopkins

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 t…

- Lightnin' Hopkins

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

- Lightnin' Hopkins

So I went ahead and made me a guitar. Igot me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, takeme a little piece of plank, nailed it onto …

- Lightnin' Hopkins