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Muddy Waters Quotes

American - Musician | April 4, 1915 - April 30, 1983

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

Time Stone Just Like

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.

Time Sunrise Me Night Hell Fish

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

People You Know Want Keep Something

I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

Life Memory My Life Long Blues Been

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.

Eyes Tree Crazy Learn Stone Down

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

Man Voice You Know My Own Own

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.

Money People World Feel Born Play

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.

Singing Down Know Way Always Things

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.

Me Small Farm Young Want Never

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

Good Real Out Got Note Around

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.

Good Music Baseball Hurt Play Ball

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

Son Think House Down Idol Course

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