4 Quotes by Lightnin' Hopkins

So I went ahead and made me a guitar. I got me a cigar box, I cut me a round hole in the middle of it, take me a little piece of plank, nailed it onto that cigar box, and I got me some screen wire and I made me a bridge back there and raised it up high enough that it would sound inside that little box, and got me a tune out of it. I kept my tune and I played from then on.

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

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

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