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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through. — Muddy Waters

Nietzsche lampooned the romantics of his day (a half century later), noting that "they muddy the waters to make them look deep. — Robert Solomon

Obscure as muddied water. But, with stillness, muddy waters clear. Can you also act while remaining still? — Lao-Tzu

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown. — L'Wren Scott

Robert Johnson? No, I didn't know him, personally. — Muddy Waters

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record. — Rory Gallagher

All the kids made their own git-tars. Made mine out of a box and bit of stick for a neck. Couldn't do much with it, but that's how you learn. — Muddy Waters

Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice. — Muddy Waters

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

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. — Mickey Rooney

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!" — James Hunter

The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality. — Muddy Waters

I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy — Jimi Hendrix

I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night. — Muddy Waters

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world ... — Muddy Waters

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology. — Muddy Waters

I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone. — Muddy Waters

Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog. — Muddy Waters

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

My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right — Muddy Waters

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

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street. — Muddy Waters

I was messing around with the harmonica ... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it. — Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them. — Robert Cray

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. — Muddy Waters

Obscure, like muddy waters. — Laozi

I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for? — Muddy Waters

The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll. — Muddy Waters

There had to be the dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background its flashing glory. — Betty Smith

If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket. — Muddy Waters

The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. — Eric Clapton

Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself. — Laozi

Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. — Muddy Waters

It's one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It's another thing to play with him. — Keith Richards

A lily does not lose its beauty because it blooms in muddy waters. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. — Terry Pratchett

You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice? — Muddy Waters

I went down to my baby's house and I sit down on her steps. She said, now come on in now, you know, my husband just left. — Muddy Waters

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

Muddy Waters he play in the river Joan Rivers she play in the mud Swami guru play in a big salad bowl Counting lettuce and chewing his cud — Tom Robbins

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder — Eric Clapton