Muddy Waters famous quotes

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
-- Muddy Waters

#Son #Thinking #Idols

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas tree and I said that I had to learn.
-- Muddy Waters

#Running #Crazy #Eye

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
-- Muddy Waters

#People #Want #Pockets

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
-- Muddy Waters

#Simple #Play #People

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.
-- Muddy Waters

#Play #People #Chicago

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
-- Muddy Waters

#Stones

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
-- Muddy Waters

#Men #Voice #Afternoon

Now that I'm gettin old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin but quit playin so hard.
-- Muddy Waters

#Money #Needs #Quitting

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
-- Muddy Waters

#Records #Way #Sound

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
-- Muddy Waters

#Technology #Valleys #China

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
-- Muddy Waters

#Sunrise #Sandwiches #Cents

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you get to working in the fields. I guess I was a big boy for my age.
-- Muddy Waters

#School #Boys #Giving

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way things were down there-in Mississippi.
-- Muddy Waters

#Singing #Way #Mississippi

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
-- Muddy Waters

#Men #California #Black

He took my music, but he gave me my name.
-- Muddy Waters

#Names #Music Business

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
-- Muddy Waters

#Baby #Rock And Roll #Rocks

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
-- Muddy Waters

#Memories #Long #Causes

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
-- Muddy Waters

#Night #Sunrise #Sandwiches

If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know. But as long as I got my health goin' pretty good, I'll show up around here.
-- Muddy Waters

#Sick #Long #People

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
-- Muddy Waters

#Country #Night #Guitar

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
-- Muddy Waters

#Baseball #Hurt #Player

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
-- Muddy Waters

#Way #Want #Worst

My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.
-- Muddy Waters

#Grandmother #Church #Should

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
-- Muddy Waters

#Johnson

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
-- Muddy Waters

#Dog #Insanity #Bark

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
-- Muddy Waters

#Baby #Husband #House

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.
-- Muddy Waters

#Kissing #Night #Hair

I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.
-- Muddy Waters

#Morning #Apples #Orange

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
-- Muddy Waters

#Voice #Church #Sound

People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.
-- Muddy Waters

#People #Should #Used

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
-- Muddy Waters

#Running #Stupid #Crazy

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
-- Muddy Waters

#Real #Harmonicas #Notes