Muddy Waters Quotes

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• The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.

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  Baby, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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• There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.

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  Mean, Light, Ems

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• My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right

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  Simple, Play, People

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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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  People, Pockets, Want

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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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  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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

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  Stones, Muddy

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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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  Memories, Long, Causes

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• Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

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  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Cents

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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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  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im 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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  Money, Play, People

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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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  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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• Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.

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  Dog, Insanity, Bark

  Song: My Dog Can't Bark

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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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  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn.

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  Kids, Sticks, Necks

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• Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.

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  Chicago, Going Out, World

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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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  Night, Sunrise, Sandwiches

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• At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.

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  Country, Night, Guitar

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• I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left.

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  Baby, Husband, House

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• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

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  People, Used, Should

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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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  Baseball, Hurt, Player

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• He took my music, but he gave me my name.

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  Names, Music Business

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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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  Voice, Church, Sound

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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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  Real, Harmonicas, Notes

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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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  Money, Needs, Quitting

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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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  School, Boys, Giving

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