Quotes by Muddy Waters - Page 1

He took my music, but he gave me my name.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Music Business
Names
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Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Bark
Dog
Insanity
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Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Chicago
Going Out
World
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Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Johnson
Knows
Personally
Robert
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I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Hair
Kissing
Night
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The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Baby
Rock And Roll
Rocks
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Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Cents
Sandwiches
Sunrise
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My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
Muddy Waters / Musician
People
Play
Simple
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China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Technology
China
Valleys
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I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Muddy
Stones
Stone
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You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
Muddy Waters / Musician
Church
Sound
Voice
Heck
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The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Quality
Kind
San Francisco
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I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Causes
Delivering
Long
Memories
Life Long My Life
All My Life
Blues
Cause
Memory
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If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
Muddy Waters / Musician
People
Pockets
Want
People Your Know
Pocket
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Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Men
Black
California
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People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.
Muddy Waters / Musician
People
Should
Used
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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 / Musician
Mississippi
Want
Way
Worst
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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 / Musician
Running
Crazy
Dumb
Miles
Stupid
Wild
Hour
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Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Men
Afternoon
Heard
Voice
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I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Harmonicas
Notes
Real
Harmonica
Messing
Note
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Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Idols
Mississippi
Son
Thinking
Idol
Slide
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Delta
Mississippi
Mississippi Delta
Records
Sound
Hear
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I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Baby
House
Husband
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All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Kids
Necks
Sticks
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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 / Musician
Mississippi
Singing
Way
Exactly
Way Always Know
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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 / Musician
Christmas
Running
Smile
Christmas Tree
Crazy
Eye
Lit
Strings
Tree
Eyes
Stone
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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 / Musician
Christmas
Smile
Morning
Apples
Cake
Orange
Apple
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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 / Musician
Bother
Church
Grandmother
Should
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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 / Musician
Boys
Fields
Giving
School
Schooling
Too Much
Big Enough
Guess
Soon
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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 you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Country
Guitar
Night
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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 / Musician
Money
Needs
Quitting
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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 / Musician
Sick
Mile
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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 / Musician
Conquer
Chunk
Gettin
Old Enough
Quit
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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 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it. And they really liked the low-down blues.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Cents
Glad
Hell
Night
Sandwiches
Saturday
Saturday Night
Sunrise
Used
Everybody
Blues
Fish
Liked
Fry
Till
Playing
Sandwich
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I got that first record out, it came out in '47... Then my name began to ring around. I began to take over. From that point, I tell you, Chicago was in my hand, all the more time that those guys had to listen to me.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Guy
Hands
Names
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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, 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 / Musician
Money
People
Play
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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 / Musician
Baseball
Baseball Player
Hurt
Left
Musician
Player
Ball
Ball Player
Definitely
Finger
Heck
Preach
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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 / Musician
Born
Chicago
Pure
Up To Date
Used
Money World People
Blues
Same
Hear
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Oh, I started out young. They handed me a cotton sack when I was about 8 years old. Give me a little small one, tell me to fill it up. I never did like the farm but I was out there with my grandmother, didn't want to get away from around her too far.
Muddy Waters / Musician
Cotton
Give Me
Me Never Young
Farm
Fill
Me Young Never
Handed
Sack
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There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.
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Ems
Light
Mean
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The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time... Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep.
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Night
Party
Sleep
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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 these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know. But as long as I got my health goin' pretty good, I'll show up around here.
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Long
People
Sick
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