Muddy Waters Quotes

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• 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…
• 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…
• The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
• 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…
• I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
• I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
• 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…
• 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…
• China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
• 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,…
• Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
• 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…
• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
• I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.
• 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…
• I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
• If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
• 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…
• Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

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