Ronnie Hawkins

“Ninety percent of my money I spent on wine, women and song. The other ten percent I wasted.”

“You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.”

“If the world was ending, I'd want to be in Cincinnati because everything comes there 20 years later.”

“We're on the endless tour.”

“I don't know nothin' 'bout music. I wouldn't know a flat from a flat tire.”

“Those boys [The Band] could play when they were 17 years old. They were as good as anybody in the world.”

“The situation is mighty bleak, but it's not hopeless.”

“Rock 'n' roll has been very, very good to me. I've been in it 50 years.”

“We had so much fun up here [in Canada], we just never did go back.”

“I came up here in '58. I had a '55 Caddy, a pocketful of money, a guitar and a big cock. I lost the Caddy and I spent the money and I don't play the guitar that much anymore.”