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There's no way in the world I can feel the same blues the way I used to. When I play in Chicago, I'm 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

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

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Now that I'm gettin' old enough to get some money, I'd like to have some money. I don't get much made, I need to conquer a big chunk of money. Not quit playin' but quit playin' so hard.

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

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

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I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

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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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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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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Musician

Born: April 4th, 1915

Died: April 30th, 1983

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