Muddy Waters Quotes

"That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Old, Sound)

"You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?"
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Church, Sound, Voice)

"There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm 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
(Related: Money, People, Chicago, Play, World)

"Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally."
- 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 been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Country, Hell)

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

"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
(Related: Time, Fish, Hell, Night)

"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
(Related: Car, Dumb)

"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
(Related: Age, School)

"If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: People, Want)

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

"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
(Related: Church)

"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
(Related: Money, Now, Old)

"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
(Related: Singing)

"Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Man, Voice)

"I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Life, Memory)

"I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?"
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Want)

"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
(Related: Music, Baseball, Hurt, Play)

"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
(Related: Christmas, Eyes)

"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
(Related: Christmas, Nothing)

"I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone."
- Muddy Waters
(Related: Time)