Quotes of Muddy Waters - somelinesforyou

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I play just straight E when I use my bar. But see if I play in A tuning, I gotta tune all over. When you're doin' a show, I ain't got time just to set there and keep on tunin' over and over. So I learned to use that bar and go in any key I wanna go in and do the slide. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I play just straight E when I use my bar. But see if I play in A tuning, I gotta tune all over. When you're doin' a show, I ain't got time just to set there and keep on tunin' over and over. So I learned to use that bar and go in any key I wanna go in and do the slide. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I met Little Walter before I started recording. He was around Chicago. He used to play Chicago in a place called Jew Town. That's on the streets. He was a great harp player but he didn't have the Walter style then, he had John Lee Williams, Sonny Boy, not Rice Miller, he was playin' on that style… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I was born in Rolling Fork and raised up in a little town called Clarksdale. When I went back to play some music in Rolling Fork, I had records out then. I wasn't raised in Rolling Fork. I was born there, and came away from there when I was 2 years old… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Seem like everybody could play some kid of instrument, and there were so many fellers playing in the jukes 'round Clarksdale I can't remember them all. But the best we had to my ideas was Sonny House. He used to have a neck of a bottle over his little finger, touch the strings with that and make them sing… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Going to Chicago was like going out of the world… I went up to St. Louis for a litle while, and I didn't like it. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I met Little Walter before I started recording. He was around Chicago. He used to play Chicago in a place called Jew Town. That's on the streets. He was a great harp player but he didn't have the Walter style then, he had John Lee Williams, Sonny Boy, not Rice Miller, he was playin' on that style… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ The blacks have their parties, hustle a little liquor, get some things together, and I used to play for those peoples. They'd come get me on time, but they wouldn't bring me back on time… Done picked cotton all day, play all night long, then pick cotton all day the next day before I could get a chance to sleep. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ If I had a million dollars, I just wouldn't just completely set back. I'd have to get out there and show my face to all these good people who like me, I have to get out there and show my face. The only thing that would set me back if I get sick or something or pass away, that's all you can do about that you know… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ I play just straight E when I use my bar. But see if I play in A tuning, I gotta tune all over. When you're doin' a show, I ain't got time just to set there and keep on tunin' over and over. So I learned to use that bar and go in any key I wanna go in and do the slide. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ Our location manager sent me photos of different possibilities, and I picked out my favorite, which was this apartment building at Mason and Green,... I sent it to Leslie, and she said, 'That's my apartment building! That's literally where I lived in San Francisco… ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters

“ 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. ”

- Muddy Waters
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