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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you got something you don’t want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. Muddy Waters Read Quote
I been in the blues all my life. I’m still delivering ’cause I got a long memory. Muddy Waters Read Quote
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. Muddy Waters Read Quote
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? Muddy Waters Read Quote
I was messing around with the harmonica… but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it. Muddy Waters Read Quote
Man, you don’t know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. Muddy Waters Read Quote
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 Read Quote
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. Muddy Waters Read Quote
