18 Delta Quotes for You to Enjoy

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

My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues. Mark Knopfler

Music Meets Folk Folk Music Delta Idea Heaven Blues Where Place

I am fascinated by the places that music comes from, like fife-and-drum blues from southern Mississippi or Cajun music out of Lafayette, Louisiana, shape-note singing, old harp singing from the mountains - I love that stuff. It's like the beginning of rock and roll: something comes down from the hills, and something comes up from the delta. Robbie Robertson

Love Music Old Singing Beginning Mountains Down Harp Out Something Delta Stuff Like Mississippi Hills Rock Rock And Roll Am Up Southern Louisiana Roll Blues Places Fascinated

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby. Charles Evers

Baby Cried Took Through He Delta Like Bobby Bobby Kennedy Kennedy

Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force - people not realizing that they were always there but doing different things than what we see them doing at the moment. Edwidge Danticat

You People Heroic Administration See Clean Delta Force Messes Always Doing Go Were Up Than Different Them Then Realizing Creating Moment Different Things Things

The blues and jazz will live forever... So will the Delta and the Big Easy. Jack Nicholson

Will Big Jazz Live Easy Delta Forever Blues

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work. John Doar

Work Black Example High-Risk Student Delta For Example Mississippi Southwest

I grew up in Mobile, Alabama - somebody's got to be from Mobile, right? - and Mobile sits at the confluence of five rivers, forming this beautiful delta. And the delta has alligators crawling in and out of rivers filled with fish and cypress trees dripping with snakes, birds of every flavor. Mike deGruy

Beautiful Somebody Every Trees Birds Out Alligators Dripping Rivers Delta Got Fish Snakes Mobile Up Five Grew Confluence Crawling Forming Flavor Filled Alabama Right

I admire Eudora Welty. 'Delta Wedding' is a book I've given as a present to numerous women. Eudora Welty rocks. She writes such jewel-like, fine, refined short stories. Nell Zink

Women Book Numerous Admire Fine Wedding Given Writes Delta She Rocks Refined Short Stories Short Stories Present

Eric Clapton was such a great player. He sounds like he's Freddie King or someone like that. He plays the roots of blues and Delta blues. He really affected me with the way that he plays, because he never really plays that many notes. Orianthi

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana. Robert Plant

Music Dark Thirties Kid Kinds Touched Absolute Never Had Delta Obsession Since Particular Mississippi West West Coast Chicago American Blues American Music Fifties Really Coast Americana

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