Muddy Quotes

• Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

  Alan Watts

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Freedom

  Alan W. Watts (2011). “The Way of Zen”, p.157, Vintage

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• Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Relationship, Marriage, Lakes

  'Melincourt' (1817)

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• Invention flags, his brain goes muddy,
  And black despair succeeds brown study.

  William Congreve

  Black, Brain, Despair

  "An Impossible Thing". Poem by William Congreve, 1720.

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• If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Kings, Kingdoms, Frogs

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• Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

  Laozi

  Water, Clear

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• I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.

  Muddy Waters

  Memories, Long, Causes

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• People should hear the pure blues - the #‎ blues we used to have when we had no money.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Used, Should

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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.

  Muddy Waters

  Money, Play, People

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• Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that VOICE and it was my own VOICE.

  Muddy Waters

  Men, Voice, Afternoon

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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.

  Muddy Waters

  Night, Sunrise, Sandwiches

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• 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

  Christmas, Running, Crazy

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• I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.

  Muddy Waters

  Stones

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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.

  Muddy Waters

  Baseball, Hurt, Player

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

  Muddy Waters

  Mississippi Delta, Sound, Records

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• If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.

  Muddy Waters

  People, Pockets, Want

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• You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?

  Muddy Waters

  Voice, Church, Sound

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

  Muddy Waters

  Son, Thinking, Idols

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• Find me playing till sunrise for 50 cents and a sandwich.

  Muddy Waters

  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Cents

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• No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

  Jose Rizal

  Sweet, Spring, Water

  Letter to the Young Women of Malolos, February 22, 1889.

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• No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

  Grace Paley

  Jobs, Children, Metaphor

  Grace Paley (2014). “Begin Again: Collected Poems”, p.4, Macmillan

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• When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.

  Shingai Shoniwa

  Writing, Men, White

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• Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and muddy, and drowned in a deluge of water.

  William Kitchiner

  Coffee, Drunk, Water

  William Kitchiner (1830). “The Cook's Oracle: And Housekeeper's Manual. Containing Receipts for Cookery, and Directions for Carving ... with a Complete System of Cookery for Catholic Families ... Being the Result of Actual Experiments Instituted in the Kitchen of William Kitchiner”, p.340

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• In most households a cup of coffee is considered the one thing needful at the breakfast hour. But how often this exhilarating beverage, that 'comforteth the brain and heateth and helpeth digestion' is made muddy and ill-flavoured! ... You may roast the berries 'to the queen's taste,' and grind them fresh every morning, and yet, if the golden liquid be not prepared in the most immaculate of coffee-pots, with each return of morning, a new disappointment awaits you.

  Janet McKenzie Hill

  Morning, Queens, Disappointment

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• Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

  Mark Twain

  Coffee, Aggravation, Smell

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.380, Velvet Element Books

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• All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.

  Jennifer Stone

  Media, Mind, Literature

  Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”

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