Muddy Quotes - Page 5

• What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician: 'He passed it on.'

  Keith Richards

  Tombstone, Old Things, Water

  "Like a Rolling Stone / Bands influenced by Mick and the boys" by James Sullivan,, www.sfgate.com. November 03, 2002.

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• People look like rivers very much: water is everywhere the same, but the rivers are narrow, fast, wide, pure, cold, muddy and warm. The people are the same. They have the rudiment of every human habit in them and they behave according to them. Sometimes they even do not look like themselves, but they still stay whatever they are.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rivers, Water, People

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• Putting Instagram into a different context is about rescuing it from the tyranny of now, taking it back from the muddy river that everyone is pouring things into. As a poet, as a thinker, as an artist, I believe there's another way to experience the world, and another way to experience time.It can't all just be public relations and branding; it's about making meaning with signs around you.

  Frances Stark

  Believe, Artist, Rivers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Isn't my music the last of the real rhythm and blues? Isn't it great? It's because of my musicians, we were weaned on Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, all the founding fathers, the gods of thunder, who invented the foundation and the pulse of the greatest music in the world!

  Ted Nugent

  Father, Real, Water

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• When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Honesty, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.51, Penguin

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• Plato, the first true pope of philosophy (sorry, Socrates), argued for a World of Forms above the reality-a transcendent plane of perfect essences, pure and lovely, where nothing ever gets muddy (including the essence of mud.)

  N.D. Wilson

  Sorry, Plato, Philosophy

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• All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

  John Fogerty

  Rivers, People, Water

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• Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin.

  Jean Rhys

  Rasputin, Down And, Awful

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• Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

  Bob Dylan

  Zero, Land, Three

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good; if meagre, muddy, vapid and sour, both are fit only to engender colic and wind; but if rich, generous and sparkling, they communicate a genial glow to the spirits, improve the taste, and expand the heart.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Wind, Criticism

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.55

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• Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.

  Alphonse Karr

  Water, Shallow, Bottom

  "Tools Of Speech" by Maturin M. Ballou, (p. 111), 1886.

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• No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

  Grace Paley

  Jobs, Children, Metaphor

  Grace Paley (2014). “Begin Again: Collected Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Writing, Men, White

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• All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

  Jennifer Stone

  Media, Mind, Literature

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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• You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.

  Shannon O'Brien

  Running, Boys, Water

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• I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues - the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again.

  Keith Richards

  Rocks, Guitar, Hands

  "The Guitar Handbook". Book by Alastair M. Crawford, Isaac Guillory, and Ralph Denyer, 1982.

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• Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Mean, Water, Liquid

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• The only real river I knew was hardly more than a brook. It spilled through a tumbledown mill at the bottom of our road, opened into a little trouty pool, then ran on through water meadows over graveled shallows into Fakenham [England], where it slowed and deepened, gathering strength for the long drifts across muddy flatlands to Norwich and the North Sea.

  Jonathan Raban

  Real, Sea, Rivers

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• You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.

  Warren Zevon

  Water, Different, Towns

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• Britain won its wars on the playing fields of Eton. America developed its mettle at the muddy gaps of the Cumberlands, in the swift rapids of its rivers, on the limitless reaches of its western plains, in the silent vastness of primeval forests, and in the blizzard-ridden passes of the Rockies and Coast ranges.

  Harvey Broome

  War, Rivers, America

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• It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well.

  Tim Cahill

  Water, Sound, Chicago

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• The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.

  George Catlin

  Character, Rivers, Water

  George Catlin (2012). “Manners, Customs, and Conditions of the North American Indians”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

  David Sobel

  Nature, Sneakers, Clothes

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• I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.

  Otis Rush

  Guitar, Play, Water

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• The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

  Aeschylus

  Spring, Night, Law

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.154, Oxford University Press

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