Muddy Waters Quotes

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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • I been in the blues all my life. I`m still delivering `cause I got a long memory.
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  • I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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  • If you got something you don`t want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
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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.
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  • Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
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  • You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can`t you hear it in my voice?
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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.
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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.
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  • I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin` stone.
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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.
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  • That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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  • Robert Johnson? No, I didn`t know him, personally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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