Little Milton Quotes


"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."
- Little Milton
(Related: People, Applause, Stars)

"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."
- Little Milton
(Related: Love, Now, Play, Weekend)

"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."
- Little Milton
(Related: Men, Money, Chance, Fun, Old, Sense)

"Most times we would make more money in the tip boxes - they called it - than we were getting paid."
- Little Milton
(Related: Money)

"I'm from the Mississippi delta originally."
- Little Milton
"I was never into the Bluegrass, Bill Monroe and stuff like that."
- Little Milton
"I was born in a little place called Inverness, MS."
- Little Milton
"I did learn that it was the greatest thing in the world to respect yourself. Respect other people."
- Little Milton
(Related: People, Respect, World)

"And one of my favorites was Eddy Arnold of course. He just had that smooth, soulful voice."
- Little Milton
(Related: Voice)