11 Muddy Waters Quotes for You to Enjoy

Muddy Waters

American Musician

Born: Apr 4, 1915

Died: Apr 30, 1983

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If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. Muddy Waters

You People Other Pocket Something Know Got Want Your Keep

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

People World Money Pure Way Born Had Feel Hear Chicago Up-To-Date Same Blues Should Used Play Playing

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

Music Good Hurt Preach Too Definitely Musician Finger Had Well Ball Ball Player Preacher Left Getting Stopped Wanted Heck Baseball Baseball Player Play Thing Player

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. Muddy Waters

You Old Way Records Through Delta Mississippi Sound Hear Them

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

Me Old Young Farm Too Out Tell About Give Give Me Small Cotton Sack Never Like Around Years Handed Up Get Did Oh Want Little Far Grandmother Fill Away Her Started

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

Christmas Crazy Eyes Somebody Down Christmas Tree Tree Saw Strings Run Had Like Learn Said Got Up Stone Lit Them

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Muddy Waters

You Man Own My Own Voice Know Felt How Heard Afternoon

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

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. Muddy Waters

Johnson Know Robert Robert Johnson Him Personally

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

You Country Hell Sick Back Our Way Could Had Nobody House Got Hear Been Close Little Us Next Mile

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