Little Milton 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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• I’m from the Mississippi delta originally.

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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Little Milton (10)

Birth:	7th September, 1934
Death:	4th August, 2005
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Guitarist, Singer

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