Papa John Creach Quotes

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other – we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.
Papa John Creach

We did a lot of work on the farm; I did a lot of heavy work. We were hired by a farmer to take care of the farm. The spraying and the pruning trees during the wintertime – we'd always have something to take care of. Oh, it was a big job!
Papa John Creach

I was born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, in 1917, May the 28th. So you can figure that out; that's a long ways off. Oh, I've been around a long time.
Papa John Creach

I got into playing the jazz. I played jazz for a good while. I did the popular stuff first. You got the "Twelfth Street Rag" and those kinds of things. Then I got to hanging around with a bunch of guys starting to playing jazz. We'd go from one place to the other and take our instruments, just perform for free.
Papa John Creach

Some of the clubs were segregated. But with me, being a musician, as an entertainer, entertainers don't have to put up with so much of that. Because there you are entertaining in a club, hell, you pay no attention because the guy hired you and you still associate with the people, anyway.
Papa John Creach