Muddy Waters Quotes

Muddy Waters — American Musician born on April 04, 1915, died on April 30, 1983

McKinley Morganfield, known by his stage name Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues"... (wikipedia)

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

There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm playing up-to-date, not the blues I was born with. People should hear the pure blues - the blues we used to have when we had no money.

Muddy Waters Quotes

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