Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

— Muddy Waters

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

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

— Muddy Waters

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you…

— Muddy Waters

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do…

— Muddy Waters

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…

— Muddy Waters

I stone got crazy when I saw somebody run down them strings with a bottleneck. My eyes lit up like a Christmas…

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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…

— Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've…

— Muddy Waters

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball…

— Muddy Waters

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,…

— Muddy Waters

There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light…

— Muddy Waters

Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago,…

— Muddy Waters

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…

— Muddy Waters

The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd…

— Muddy Waters

If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my…

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

He took my music, but he gave me my name.

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

I was always singing the way I felt, and maybe I didn't exactly know it, but I just didn't like the way…

— Muddy Waters

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

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

— Muddy Waters

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

— Muddy Waters

I went to school, but they didn't give you too much schooling because just as soon as you was big enough, you…

— Muddy Waters

At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to…

— Muddy Waters

Saturday night is your big night. Everybody used to fry up fish and have one hell of a time. Find me playing…

— Muddy Waters

I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take…

— Muddy Waters