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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I still play the fiddle every day. I’m afraid if I don’t, it won’t know who I am. Johnny Gimble Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
