Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters
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"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth4 April 1915
CityIssaquena County,, MS
CountryUnited States of America
money needs quitting
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.
way want worst
I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
baby husband house
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.
baseball hurt player
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.
country night guitar
At night in the country, you'd be surprised how that music carries. You could hear my guitar way before you get to the house, and you could hear the peoples hollerin' and screamin'.
simple play people
My blues are so simple, but so few people can play it right
stones muddy
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
sunrise sandwiches cents
Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
mean light ems
There was a time when I had the blues - I mean I really had it bad. I couldn't pay my light bill and I couldn't pay my rent and I really had the blues. But today I can pay my rent and I can pay the light bill and I still got the blues. So I must been born with 'em... That's my religion - the blues is my religion.
memories long causes
I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
people want pockets
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
men voice afternoon
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.
play people world
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.
running crazy eye
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.