Quotes by Johnny Gimble - Page 1

I wasn't really an old-time breakdown fiddler.
Johnny Gimble /
Breakdown
Old Time
Fiddler
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I didn't really get crazy about Bob Wills until 1940.
Johnny Gimble /
Wills
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I grew up listening to the Light Crust Doughboys on WBAP.
Johnny Gimble /
Crust
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The magic, that's what keeps you playing. That's what never wears off.
Johnny Gimble /
Wears
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I still play the fiddle every day. I'm afraid if I don't, it won't know who I am.
Johnny Gimble /
Fiddle
I Am Day Every Day
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I had a stroke in December of '99, and it affected my left side - my fingering side.
Johnny Gimble /
December
Stroke
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I keep a fiddle hooked up in the music - we've got a music room - and try to pick it up.
Johnny Gimble /
Fiddle
Hooked
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My dad was a telegraph operator for the Cotton Belt Railroad. He worked seven nights a week from 4 until midnight, no vacation.
Johnny Gimble /
Vacation
Cotton
Midnight
Seven
Telegraph
Belt
Nights
Operator
Railroad
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When I get asked for advice for a young person starting in the music business, I tell them, 'Play every chance you get, and be real lucky.'
Johnny Gimble /
Music Business
Be Real
Every Chance
Young Person
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It's just a real thrill when you're showing somebody a chord progression or something, and you see that light come on, you know. You see 'em 'get it.'
Johnny Gimble /
Progression
Thrill
Chord
Showing
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To join Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys was like throwing a baseball around in your front yard and somebody coming over and signing you to play for the New York Yankees.
Johnny Gimble /
New York
Baseball
Bob
Signing
Texas
Throwing
Yankees
Front
Join
Wills
York
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When I was 15, I was working for a radio band in Shreveport. Cliff Bruner, the hottest Texas fiddler of them all, was on the same package shows, playing for Jimmie Davis.
Johnny Gimble /
Hottest
Davis
Cliff
Fiddler
Package
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When I'd hear something that sounded like I could follow it - most of those big band jazz tunes are blues anyway - I would hum it and play with the fiddle while I was humming.
Johnny Gimble /
Fiddle
Humming
Tunes
Anyway
Big Band
Blues
Hum
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I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'
Johnny Gimble /
Endowment
Fellowship
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I go stay a week in these little towns that don't have an art outlet and... go to the schools and play some of the old Texas music, sort of 'go through the Texas country roots' is what they call it.
Johnny Gimble /
Roots
Towns
Outlet
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I tell my audiences today that I served 10 years in Nashville! That's a joke, of course; I was grateful for the work. Bob Ferguson, who produced Connie Smith, Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, started calling me in.
Johnny Gimble /
Ferguson
Grateful
Nashville
Work Today Me
Dolly Parton
Porter
Produced
Served
Smith
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When the doctors showed me an X-ray of my brain, they pointed to a black hole on the upper left side and told me that all memory from that spot was dead. I thought to myself that I hoped that's where I kept 'The Orange Blossom Special.'
Johnny Gimble /
Black Hole
Doctors
Orange
Myself Brain Me
Blossom
Hole
Hoped
Spot
Pointed
Upper
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Mostly, whenever I'm booked to do instruction, I just play a little bit and get people to ask questions. We'll play some music for 'em, 'til somebody hollers out, 'Play 'Milk Cow Blues' or 'Play 'San Antonio Rose.' We play requests and demonstrate our music.
Johnny Gimble /
Instruction
Milk
San Antonio
Blues
Booked
Cow
Demonstrate
Our Music
Requests
San
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I was never very good at picking cotton, and then I only made fifty cents or $1 a day. People would work for $1 a day during the Depression. So we would get $2 for playing music and just having fun. I think that as a result of that it was not just the money, but we enjoyed doing it.
Johnny Gimble /
Cents
Cotton
Having Fun
Work Good Money
Picking
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Texas was home. We went to Anchorage to get rich in 1959. Someone told us, 'If you drive a nail, you could make $100 a day in construction work.' We were hungry, and we stayed there for a year and a half. But I never did plan to stay there - the same with Nashville. I was gonna go up there and work, but Texas was home.
Johnny Gimble /
Construction
Hungry
Nashville
Work Home Day
Nail
Stayed
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