Pinetop Perkins Professions : Jazz Pianist Born : July 7, 1913 Died : March 21, 2011 Browse All Authors Top 8 quotes by Pinetop Perkins I taught myself off records, Memphis Slim, them old piano players, then added to it. Yeah, hard and loud, beat it to pieces. Pinetop Perkins piano pieces player I can't play piano like I used to either. I used to have bass rolling like thunder. I can't do that no more. But I ask the Lord, please forgive me for the stuff I done trying to make a nickel. Pinetop Perkins forgive-me piano play I didn’t have much school. Three years. Pinetop Perkins three years school I play any piano with a good tune. Pinetop Perkins piano tunes play I grew up hard. I picked cotton and plowed with the mule and fixed the cars and played with the guitar and the piano. Pinetop Perkins piano car guitar I play blues old-timey style. Pinetop Perkins blues style play What I learned I learned on my own. I didn't have much school. Three years. Pinetop Perkins own my-own three school What little family I got is in Mississippi. A whole lot of them died before I left, and my sister died a long time ago, before my mama did. Pinetop Perkins sister family time long Similar Authors Brad Mehldau jazz-pianist Andrew Hill jazz-pianist Art Tatum jazz-pianist Alice Coltrane jazz-pianist Billy Taylor jazz-pianist Ahmad Jamal jazz-pianist All Authors
