Little Milton Quotes (13 Quotes)

We could play them through the week, and then the weekend we could play the black joints. I learned to be very versatile and learned to love it. So it stays with me even up to now.

And I tell my audience, you know, give the real stars a round of applause. Because without them I'm nobody. So I learned so much from people like that.

I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS.

And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice.

My mom moved up between Leland and Greenville when I was just a little tot.

So at that time I must have been about 14 or 15. And they gave me a job. I could sing. Couldn't play worth a damn. But I could sing. I could sing.

So I got a chance to meet a whole bunch of those old real, real rough but gentle men. They lived hard, but they lived good - in one sense, you know. But you had a lot of fun. Didn't make much money, but you had a lot of fun.

So I was just a kid. I lies about my age and took a little soot and put it under my lip made me a mustache. They knew I was lying.

Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid.

I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people.

But I was always tall. I was skinny then. I was tall for my age. And I've been about six feet tall since I was about, oh I guess, 11, 12 years old.

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that.