63 Quotes by Muddy Waters

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.