“Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close t...” — Muddy Waters Quote

“Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.”

“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.”

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

“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”

“I'm a hell of a lucky guy.”

“Why the hell would I want to read about myself?”