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The first band I identified with from Chicago was the Muddy Waters band. -- Eric Clapton
When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues. -- Johnny Winter
You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles. -- Warren Zevon
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time. -- Gregg Allman
So I went out and bought Hard Again by Muddy Waters. That was a big learning curve. I listened to that album again and again and again. James Cotton was the harmonica player on that album. -- Sonny Terry
It was Muddy Waters who took the Delta blues north to Chicago, electrified the sound, and changed the course of popular music as we know it. That's pretty much the judgment of history, and it is mine as well. -- Tim Cahill
When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. -- Tom Petty
My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery. -- Alvin Lee
Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear. -- Laozi
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. -- Alan Watts
Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record. -- Rory Gallagher
I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder -- Eric Clapton
A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. -- William Shakespeare
Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters. -- Keith Richards
If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!" -- James Hunter
Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll. -- Van Morrison
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Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them. -- Robert Cray
May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late. -- George Washington
Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still. -- Ming-Dao Deng
I'd like to get something together - like a Handel, Bach, Muddy waters, flamenco type of thing. If I could get that sound, I'd be happy -- Jimi Hendrix
Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on. -- Pete Seeger
My own musical background is based in the blues, and in classical composition. I grew up listening to Muddy Waters, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Beethoven and Bach. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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
What Muddy Waters did for us is what we should do for others. It's the old thing, what you want written on your tombstone as a musician; HE PASSED IT ON. -- Keith Richards
Muddy Waters, I suppose, was my first great hero. You know, every boy wants to be a guitar player, and Muddy Waters was just the king. He was the King Bee. He was it. -- Hugh Laurie
At the Muddy Waters thing, I played the first song by myself on an acoustic guitar. I thought that was great that y'all did that tribute to Muddy Waters. I had a real good time -- Gregg Allman
I'd play whenever I could get my hands on an electric guitar; I was trying to pick up rock'n'roll riffs and electric blues-the latest Muddy Waters. I'd spend hours and hours on the same track, back again, and back again. -- Keith Richards
They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do. -- Buddy Guy
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river. -- John Fogerty
It made me sick - my name's Keith Richards. It hardly makes it against Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters, does it? On my first guitar I had Boy Blue written - just pathetic. But that was as good as I got at the time. -- Keith Richards
I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him. -- Eric Clapton
That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work. -- Vince Clarke
The best musicians in the world were raised on the same kind of music I was raised on and that is black, soulful, authoritative, ultra-tight, ferocious, uppity, defiant music that from the Howlin' Wolf, the Muddy Waters, the Lightnin' Hopkins, the Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard. -- Ted Nugent
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
Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study. -- William Congreve
All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. -- Mickey Rooney
In English, my name means hope. In Spanish, it means too many letters. It means sadness. It means waiting. It is like the number nine, a muddy color. -- Sandra Cisneros
An adventure may be worn as a muddy spot or it may be worn as a proud insignia. It is the woman wearing it who makes it the one thing or the other. -- Norma Shearer
Science, which cuts its way through the muddy pond of daily life without mingling with it, casts its wealth to right and left, but the puny boatmen do not know how to fish for it. -- Alexander Herzen
Most of the catfish you find at the fish counter has been farmed. Though I usually prefer to buy and eat wild fish, farmed catfish taste cleaner, without the muddy taste of their wild relatives. -- Tom Douglas
Woodstock - I didn't see anybody play, except when I was standing backstage waiting to go on, because it was so muddy. And the weather was so horrible, you literally couldn't get there except by helicopter. -- Grace Slick
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world; there is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi. -- George Catlin
Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be. -- Artie Lange
One of my earliest memories is walking up a muddy road into the mountains. It was raining. Behind me, my village was burning. When there was school, it was under a tree. Then the United Nations came. They fed me, my family, my community. -- Ban Ki-moon
One of the last episodes was all about a flood. We were working in the rain till all hours, and it was muddy and it was cold and it was damp, and it was hours under the hoses. That was not pleasant. That was not pleasant. -- Derek Jacobi
Oh, there's so much ego with men; in their head, they can't possibly think about Tesco's when they are doing Othello. Er, why not? They want to think that they are such geniuses they can't muddy their day with domesticity, and I've got no truck with it whatsoever. -- Lesley Manville
Did Muddy Waters play an acoustic? Well of course he did. But did he turn his back on being able to plug it in and play louder? No, he plugged in and turned it up and got miles and miles ahead of the game in one fateful act of just plugging in. -- Billy Gibbons
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.' -- Tim Cahill
A British porch is a musty, forbidding non-room in which to fling a sodden umbrella or a muddy pair of boots; a guard against the elements and strangers. By contrast the good ol' American front porch seems to stand for positivity and openness; a platform from which to welcome or wave farewell; a place where things of significance could happen. -- Dan Stevens
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and started screaming and sinking. My mom ran up, and I was just standing there a foot away and wouldn't stick out my hand to pull him up. So I'm probably not the best person to take on a camping trip. -- Norman Reedus
I'm a massive hater of 3D. I don't like it at all. For me, you go to a movie theatre and you want to be taken to a place and transported to a place and be in that environment, and I know 3D is meant to do that, but the effect for me is the reverse. I feel like I'm looking though muddy water, and I can't really see the image. -- Neill Blomkamp
Obscure, like muddy waters. -- Laozi
They muddy the water, to make it seem deep. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Let muddy water stand and it will become clear. -- Laozi
Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people. -- Ava DuVernay
May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water. -- Gautama Buddha
Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom. -- Alphonse Karr
Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy. -- Arthur Guiterman
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds. -- Aberjhani
The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind. -- Terry Pratchett
Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle. -- David Sobel
Until Color TV came along, BW TV was too muddy to be enjoyable. -- W. P. Kinsella
If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Honesty can be a dirty gift. It can muddy a sparkling stream of memories. -- Colin Cotterill
Never wrestle with pigs for the pigs remain clueless and you end up muddy. -- Orrin Woodward
Many fortunes, like rivers, have a pure source, but grow muddy as they grow large. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. -- John Banham
Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond. -- Thomas Love Peacock
All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma. -- Jennifer Stone
No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock. -- Grace Paley
The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy. -- Wallace Stevens
falling not flying one lost muddy shoe like the lost worlds between me and you -- Kami Garcia
No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed. -- Jose Rizal
Such a muddy line between the things you want/And the things you have to do. -- Sheryl Crow
I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night. -- W. C. Fields
It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism. -- Don Watson
Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have. -- Yann Martel
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle. -- Laozi
He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path. -- Suzanne Finnamore
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory. -- Betty Smith
Who is there who can make muddy waters clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will gradually clear itself. -- Laozi
The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries. -- James Elkins
God has taken four guys that look like five miles of muddy road and made them famous in the TV world. -- Si Robertson
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Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon. -- Bob Dylan
Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below. -- Ella Leya
Laying complements next to each other makes them scintillating, but mixing them produces a 'muddy' rendering of each color. The mud is good stuff... -- Simmie Knox
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
There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. -- George Eliot
The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind. -- F. H. Bradley
I trudged around on the muddy river bottom for half an hour, patiently waiting to drown, before giving up and slogging my way back to shore. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Truth is compared in Scripture to a streaming fountain; if her waters flow not in perpetual progression, they sicken into a muddy pool of conformity and tradition. -- John Milton
If water stands motionless in a pool it grows stale and muddy, but when it moves and flows it becomes clear: so, too, man in his wanderings. -- Muhammad Asad
You are always training yourself to be, mind and body, as clear as crystal, and you always are, and never change; whereas I am a muddy, solitary, moping weed. -- Charles Dickens
The seed of mystery lies in muddy water. How can I perceive this mystery? Water becomes clear through stillness. How can I become still? By flowing with the stream. -- Laozi
Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you. -- Rosamund Lupton
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy. -- Aberjhani
Camus and Henry waved to me from that muddy truck. They both wanted me to get over myself.So, this was me, getting over myself. And it was about time. -- Laura Anderson Kurk
This whole thing about winning and losing is muddy waters. But I can remember, as a young actor, just walking around this city and not being able to get arrested. -- Jeffrey Tambor
Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer. -- George Crabbe
O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow! -- William Shakespeare
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure. -- Taisen Deshimaru
The thing which seems so glorious when viewed from the heights of the country's cause looks so muddy when seen from the bottom. One begins by getting angry and then feels disgusted. -- Rabindranath Tagore
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
When a man speaks the truth in the spirit of truth, his eye is as clear as the heavens. When he has base ends, and speaks falsely, the eye is muddy, and sometimes asquint. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever. -- Jennifer L. Holm
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into muddy streams, and Hagrid's pumpkins swelled to the size of garden sheds. -- J. K. Rowling
It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself. -- Bruce Lee
As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil. -- Alan Watts
Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal. -- George Saunders
The word that most perfectly describes the city of Cuzco is evocative. Intangible dust of another era settles on its streets, rising like the disturbed sediment of a muddy lake when you touch its bottom. -- Che Guevara

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