I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues…

— Robert Plant

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself.…

— Marty Stuart

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is…

— John Grisham

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there…

— Mose Allison

The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue,…

— Lewis Nordan

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on…

— Barack Obama

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

— Charley Pride

I'm also a blues musician, and all blues artists can trace their pain to the slavery fields of the Mississippi Delta.

— Tony Todd

Whether in public office or right here at home, I will never stop fighting for Mississippi. From the Delta to East Mississippi up to…

— Mike Espy

The Delta is a conservative place, .. District 28 is a very conservative district. We don't have many conservative districts in the Delta. Mississippi…

— Charles Capps

“The moon was obscured by heavy clouds. January was already past the mid-mark and the early delta spring would soon be on them. Already…

— Leslie H. Whitten Jr

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

— Muddy Waters

The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of…

— Charles Kuralt

Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said…

— John Lewis

I've always been in love with that Delta-flavored music... the music that came from Mississippi and Memphis and, especially, New Orleans. When I was…

— Robbie Robertson