Muddy Waters Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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

“I got up one Christmas morning and we didn't have nothing to eat. We didn't have an apple, we didn't have an orange, we didn't have a cake, we didn't have nothing.”

“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.”

“I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?”

“My grandmother, she say I shouldn't be playing. I should go to church. Fially, I say I'm going do this, I'm going do it. And she got where she didn't bother me about it.”

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

“I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.”

“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.”

“Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally.”

“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.”