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 More Quotes by Pinetop Perkins More Quotes From Pinetop Perkins 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