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Top 30 Muddy Waters Quotes (2025 Update)

Muddy Waters Quote: “The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.”

1. “The blues had a baby and they called it rock and roll.”

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “I been in the blues all my life. I’m still delivering ’cause I got a long memory.”

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

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Muddy Waters Quote: “My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right.”

3. “My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.”

4. “Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.”

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

5. “That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.”

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...”

6. “Going to Chicago was like going out of the world...”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

7. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “Ain’t nobody’s business, if I bark like a dog.”

8. “Ain’t nobody’s business, if I bark like a dog.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man’s street.”

9. “Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man’s street.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.”

10. “China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can’t you hear it in my voice?”

11. “You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can’t you hear it in my voice?”

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “If you got something you don’t want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.”

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

— Muddy Waters

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

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

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Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

14. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im 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.”

15. “Theres no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, Im 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

Muddy Waters Quote: “Robert Johnson? No, I didn’t know him, personally.”

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

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.”

17. “I got your strand of hair, I kiss it day and night.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

18. “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

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

19. “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 Quote: “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.”

20. “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

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

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

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

22. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “Man, you don’t know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.”

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

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

24. “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.”

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

25. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “He took my music, but he gave me my name.”

26. “He took my music, but he gave me my name.”

— Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters Quote: “The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.”

27. “The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality.”

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Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

28. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

29. “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

Muddy Waters Quote: “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.”

30. “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

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