Topic: What'd I Say - Quote Drive 2008

[uncle bud]

That Baby Tate quote is, well, let's just say it's going to be difficult listening to Pink Anderson for at least a few weeks.  Too funny...

[Rivers]

What I wondered was "how did he know?"

[oddenda]

Rivers -

          I wondered the same thing! I just reports them as I heard them!!

Peter B.

[uncle bud]

George wanted to take Lonzie to record with Albert Macon and Robert Thomas, and the daughter was hesitant to let Lonzie get in a car with George, or with anybody, but George reassured her. So George helped him in the car, and put the car in reverse, and drove directly into a nearby ditch. Lonzie turned and said, "Man, George, you may as well let me drive!" - Fred Fussell describes George Mitchell chauffeuring the blind Lonzie Thomas to a recording session, from notes to The George Mitchell Collection.

[Coyote Slim]

What I wondered was "how did he know?"

Maybe he got so bold, he just couldn't keep it hid.


 

[Mr.OMuck]

OT but to good to pass up:

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein

[uncle bud]

Old Yank's wife, when she seen me and John coming, she'd start throwing Yank's clothes outdoors. - Hammie Nixon, in The Voice of the Blues

[uncle bud]

I heard them bring that old Iron Curtain down on me. - Sleepy John Estes visits eastern Europe, The Voice of the Blues

[uncle bud]

I tell you, all them scounds could play good; I don't know which one was best. I liked that Lonnie - he was the big fat one - I liked his violin playin', but that other one, what played violin and piano, too, and everything, I believe it was Bert. They both played so good, it'd be hard to tell how to judge which one played the best. - Houston Stackhouse remembers the Chatmon brothers, The Voice of the Blues

[uncle bud]

The piano may do for lovesick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles, and slate pencils. But give me the banjo... When you want genuine music?music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whiskey?ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose?when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo! - Mark Twain, Early Tales and Sketches, Vol 2 (1864-65)

[uncle bud]

He been dead so long he near about ready to come back. - Furry Lewis addresses whether Jim Jackson was still alive in 1959.

(Thanks to Jeff Harris' sundayblues.org for that one.)

[Rivers]

When the tide goes out on Wall Street, all kinds of flotsam and jetsam are revealed in the mud flats - John Coffee, professor at Columbia University School of Law

[Coyote Slim]

Some of these quotes have me scratchin' my head wonderin' how they're blues related.  Some of 'em are interesting but a bit of a stretch for a blues quote...

I am a cool driver, and I know my way around.  -- Johnny Shines, "Cool Driver"

[Rivers]

There've always been a few that aren't blues related since day one.

[uncle bud]

Oh man, I just wish you people had come along twenty years ago; I was in my prime then. - Mance Lipscomb to Paul Oliver, Chris Strachwitz and Mack McCormick, 1960