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Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

— Columbus Short

They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look…

— Buddy Guy

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

— Keith Richards

When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said,…

— Shingai Shoniwa

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

— L'Wren Scott

For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played…

— Lin Brehmer

Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just…

— Hugh Laurie

What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone…

— Keith Richards

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which…

— George Catlin

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like…

— John Fogerty

“There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. a”

— Betty Smith