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.
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. - Muddy Waters
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.
- Muddy Waters
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there. - Muddy Waters
Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.
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 blue… - Muddy Waters
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 blue…
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. - Muddy Waters
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
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.… - Muddy Waters
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.…
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone. - Muddy Waters
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. - Muddy Waters
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. - Muddy Waters
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
He took my music, but he gave me my name. - Muddy Waters
He took my music, but he gave me my name.
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