I been in the blues all my life. I'm still delivering 'cause I got a long memory.
From Muddy Waters
You get a heck of a sound from the church. Can't you hear it in my voice?
I rambled all the time. I was just like that, like a rollin' stone.
Man, you don't know how I felt that afternoon when I heard that voice and it was my own voice.
That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
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