Muddy Quotes - Page 4

• The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.

  Ted Nugent

  Water, Black, Musician

  "More Than 10 Questions with Ted Nugent. The Man, His Views, His Music & The New Album ShutUp & Jam". Interview with Mark Capuano, music.allaccess.com. July 23, 2014.

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• Is there a word for the moment you win tug-of-war? When the weight gives, and all that extra rope comes hurtling towards you, how even though you've won, you still end up with muddy knees and burns on your hands? Is there a word for that? I wish there was.

  Sarah Kay

  Life, War, Winning

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• For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

  Lin Brehmer

  Inspiration, Names, Water

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• Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

  Yann Martel

  Dancing, Trying, Toads

  Yann Martel (2010). “Beatrice and Virgil”, p.88, Canongate Books

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

  George Eliot

  Wine, Beer, Knowing

  George Eliot (1871). “Felix Holt, the Radical”, p.302

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• The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

  James Elkins

  Oil, Discovery, Brilliant

  James Elkins (2004). “What Painting Is”, p.5, Routledge

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Beer, Proud

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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• It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself.

  Bruce Lee

  Water, Trying, Useless

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee: Artist of Life”, p.97, Tuttle Publishing

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• Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.

  Irvin S. Cobb

  Men, Thinking, Lakes

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• To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Good Luck, Water, Too Much

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• It's a metaphor for what we're being told: "Just stay in the box, kid, don't muddy the water." Parents say it to their kids. Teachers say it. Schools do. And so people become immune to the sameness.

  Frank Gehry

  Teacher, School, Kids

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Color, Tvs, Enjoyable

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach.

  Frederick Lenz

  Water, Musical, Listening

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• A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there, eventually slide down to join their unfortunate fellows in the canyon floors, with mud, cars, and embalmed or living film stars in one glorious muddy mass. We should not lend our talents to creating such spectacular catastrophes.

  Bill Mollison

  Stars, Creating, Car

  "Permaculture: A Designers' Manual". Book by Bill Mollison, 1988.

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• No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

  Jose Rizal

  Sweet, Spring, Water

  Letter to the Young Women of Malolos, February 22, 1889.

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• Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff.

  Simmie Knox

  Color, Mixing, Stuff

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• It was blazing sunshine and I went on in a turquoise neck muff, glamorous dress and muddy boots and just had the best gig, really emotional. I've had emails from people saying that they cried. They promised it wasn't the drugs.

  KT Tunstall

  Sunshine, Emotional, People

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• I said if you want to be Keith Richards, you've got to listen to Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry. Then I thought, "What did Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry listen to?" I said, "They listened to Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters." Well who'd they listen to? They listened to Robert Johnson. I said, "Ok, we'll start with that."

  George Thorogood

  Water, Berries, Keith

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

  Pete Seeger

  Feelings, Paper, Fool

  "Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" (song) (1967)

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• Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

  Ava DuVernay

  People, Black, Unforgiving

  Source: www.vulture.com

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• It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time.

  Keith Richards

  Boys, Blue, Guitar

  "I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. May 01, 2009.

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• One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Memories, Rain, School

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• Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Water, Done

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, Differences, Water

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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