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He took my music, but he gave me my name.

Muddy Waters

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Muddy Waters
Age: 68 †
Born: 1915
Born: April 4
Died: 1983
Died: April 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
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Rolling Fork
Mississippi
McKinley Morganfield
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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'.
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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.
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You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
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Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.
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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.
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Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
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China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology.
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I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.
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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.
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That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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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.
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Going to Chicago was like going out of the world.
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Ain't nobody's business, if I bark like a dog.
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I wanted to get out of Mississippi in the worst way. Go back? What I want to go back for?
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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.
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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.
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I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
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