The thing about San Francisco is that it has this kind of magical quality. — Muddy Waters

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

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

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’. — Muddy Waters

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

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle. — Lao Tzu

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

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

Ain’t nobody’s business, if I bark like a dog. — Muddy Waters

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would’ve been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn’t nobody hear you. — Muddy Waters

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

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

Experiencing, rather than trying to have special experiences, is where real freedom lies. — Ezra Bayda

Robert Johnson? No, I didn’t know him, personally. — Muddy Waters

He took my music, but he gave me my name. — Muddy Waters

China is to stock fraud as Silicon Valley is to technology. — Muddy Waters

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

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

Going to Chicago was like going out of the world. — Muddy Waters

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

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