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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

  Laozi

  Water, Clear

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• The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Flower, Water, Doe

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2016). “Sparks of Divinity: The Teachings of B. K. S. Iyengar”, p.48, Shambhala Publications

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

  Muddy Waters

  Sunrise, Sandwiches, Cents

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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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• 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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• When it seems like the night will last forever,
  And there's nothing left to do but count the years,
  When the strings of my harp to sever,
  And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears...
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And dream me a dream of my own,
  I will walk alone by the black muddy river,
  And sing me a song of my own.

  Robert Hunter

  Dream, Song, Fall

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• It’s one thing to play a Muddy Waters song. It’s another thing to play with him.

  Keith Richards

  Song, Play, Water

  FaceBook post by Keith Richards from Feb 27, 2013

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• I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

  Paul Weller

  Kids, Differences, Water

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

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• Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

  Van Morrison

  Rocks, Water, Done

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• For groups like the Rolling Stones names like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf were exotic inspirations. For Siegel-Schwall they were the guys that played with them on 43rd Street.

  Lin Brehmer

  Inspiration, Names, Water

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• Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do.

  Sheryl Crow

  Desire, Lines, Want

  Song: Leaving Las Vegas, Album: Tuesday Night Music Club, 1993

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