muddy waters

“I stopped and peeked over, and then I left because he was a dangerous man.” – Muddy Waters, on the only time he saw Robert Johnson.

“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

“Stream rolls to the river, and the river to the sea” – Muddy Waters, “Bus Driver”, 1977

“It made me sick – my name’s Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin’ Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it?” – The Rolling Stones’ Keith Richards

“Everything gonna be alright this mornin'” – Muddy Waters, Mannish Boy, 1955

“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

“You know the Blues got Soul” – Muddy Waters, The Blues Had a Baby and They Named It Rock n’ Roll, 1976

“The main guy was Louis Jordan. I wanted to sing like Nat Cole, with lyrics like Louis Jordan, with the swing of Bennie Goodman with Charlie Christian on guitar, playing Carl Hogan’s riffs, with the soul of Muddy Waters.” – Chuck Berry

“The name of it is Rolling Stone, which comes from an old saying: ‘A Rolling Stone gathers no moss.’ Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote; The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy’s song, and “Like A Rolling Stone” was the title of Bob Dylan’s first rock and roll record.”” – Jann Wenner’s Letter from the Editor, Rolling Stone Magazine Volume 1 / Issue 1, November 9, 1967

“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

“The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I heard one of his old records when I was a little boy and it scared me to death” – Jimi Hendrix

“Have you heard of Muddy Waters?” – Jimi Hendrix

“Johnny [Winter] is going to play with my band and shake the house up” – Muddy Waters

“I always felt like I could beat plowing mules and chopping cotton” – Muddy Waters

“When I was down in Mississippi, there was just three things I wanted to be – a heck of a preacher, a heck of a ball player or a heck of a musician.” – Muddy Waters

“The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters.” – Jimi Hendrix

“He carried me around to the clubs and helped me get started.” – Howlin’ Wolf on Muddy Waters

“If you’re watching me and Johnny Winter, the show was MENAT to be played in black and white” – Muddy Waters

“I sold the last horse that we had. Made about fifteen dollars for him, gave my grandmother $7.50, I kept $7.50 and paid about $2.50 for that guitar. It was a Stella.” – Muddy Waters

“Now when I was a young boy at the age of five, my mother said I was gonna be the greatest man alive.” – Muddy Waters

“Bring me champagne when I’m thirsty, bring me reefer when I want to get high.” – Muddy Waters

“I’m sorry that the world didn’t know me for 40 years.” – Muddy Waters

“Really why I left the south for was to make records.” – Muddy Waters

“I was workin’ on a plantation. I picked cotton, I copped cotton, I drove trucks, I plowed the mules, I did all of it.” – Muddy Waters

“He heard Sunnysland Slim play, Sunnyland Slim told him about me, so he got right in touch with me. I was working, driving a truck — a beautiful little truck.” – Muddy Waters

“[Chess Records] released ten thousand records [of Mojo Workin’] on Friday, by Saturday 1:00 you couldn’t buy one. They were selling records then for .79 cents… I raised the price.” – Muddy Waters

“They ain’t got enough soul, man. They ain’t had enough hard times.” – Muddy Waters

“To find information about a lot of blues guys I used to go to the library and find the jazz magazines… and read all about where these people were playing, like Muddy Waters and Elmore James.” – Angus Young, lead guitarist & founder of AC/DC

“Find me playing til sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich. And be glad of it.” – Muddy Waters

“With Hank Williams, he was a voice. Muddy Waters was a voice. They were both blues singers to me.” – Van Morrison

“Life is about memories. I remember the first time Muddy Waters asked me to play.” – Buddy Guy

“If you’ll notice, there’s Muddy Waters songs all through the Allman Brothers records. My brother would play that stuff on acoustic for hours.” – Gregg Allman

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

“I may be getting old, but I’ve got young fashioned ways…I don’t worry about no young one’s…there’ll be no one to take my place.” – Muddy Waters

“I may be getting old, but I’ve got young fashioned ways…” – Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters’ first 1950 recording of blues standard ROLLIN’ AND TUMBLIN’ featured Little Walter on harmonica.

Muddy Waters said the only time he saw Robert Johnson play was on the front porch of Hirsberg’s Drugstore in Friars Point, Mississippi.

I picked Muddy [Waters] up in Rolling Fork when he was about 15… All these women were comin’ up to me and sayin’, ‘Oh. your young son is so nice!’ See, I had to put Muddy down because he was takin’ away my women.

Muddy Waters discovered Chuck Berry.

The Rolling Stones famously got started because Keith Richards spotted Mick Jagger at a train station holding Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry records, which intrigued the young guitarist.

1981’s King Bee was the last album Muddy Waters released.

Before finding success at Chess Records, Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Jimmy Rogers used to be known as “The Headhunters”, and would crash other musician’s gigs to showcase how much better they were.

According to Dan Aykroyd, while a young man in Ottawa, he filled in on drums one night behind Muddy Waters (for Mud’s regular drummer S.P. Leary).

“King Bee”, released in 1981, was Muddy Waters fourteenth and final studio album.

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