Best water & muddy Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world.”

World Firsts Littles Play Water My Own Saws First Time Inspired Guitar Staying My Sister Amusement Jimmy Roger Muddy

Author:Otis Rush

“Water is a commodity not by any means to be found everywhere...When found, it is more than likely to be bad, being either from a bitter alkaline pool, or from a hole in a creek, so muddy that it can only be called liquid by courtesy.”

Mean Found Water Holes Bitter Pool Commodity Courtesy Liquid Muddy Creeks

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“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.”

Needs Looks Said Play Used Water Tape Look At Me Rehearsal Muddy

Author:Buddy Guy

“The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.”

People Long Law Night Water Drink Spring Injustice Awe Innate Muddy

Book:The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

Source: The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia

“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.”

Trying Play Hands Water Hours Rocks Picks Guitar Track Rock N Roll Electric Back Again Muddy Electric Guitar

Author:Keith Richards

“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.”

Ifs Should Trying Water Clear Useless Dirt Muddy

Book:Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

Source: Bruce Lee: Artist of Life

“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.”

Ifs Thinking Men Years Stills Earth Faces Water Common Sun Mystery Tree Green Shining Fingers Depth Lakes Quarters Mud Limbs Skeletons Muddy Sun Shines Slime Cypresses Cypress Trees

Author:Irvin S. Cobb

“To solicit the aid of luck is like stirring muddy water to bring objects submerged at the bottom to the top where they can be seen. Every worker would to well to tempt their good luck. Nevertheless, we should not depend on it too much.”

Should Wells Water Too Much Objects Depends Luck Workers Bottom Aids Nevertheless Good Luck Stirring Muddy Submerged

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”

Water Sweet Spring Fruit Seeds Bitter Muddy Sweet Fruit

Author:Jose Rizal

“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.”

Water My Own Listening Grew Grew Up Musical Miles Backgrounds Composition Rama Muddy Coltrane

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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.”

World Kind Littles Black Water Musician Raised Chuck Berries Muddy Soulful Hopkins Ultras Howlin Wolf

Author:Ted Nugent

“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.”

People Made Feelings Water Records Standing Rivers Singers Really Great Mississippi Louisiana Muddy Memphis Mississippi River Howlin Wolf

Author:John Fogerty

“Display is like shallow water, where you can see the muddy bottom.”

Water Bottom Display Shallow Muddy Shallow Water

Author:Alphonse Karr

“When someone like Kurt Cobain or Jack White comes out, they didn't go, "He sounds just like Muddy Waters," did they? They just said, "He's great, he sounds like him." When women come out and men write about them, they tend to write about them in a way that other men can understand, which sometimes can seem a bit patronizing.”

Men Way Writing Said Sometimes Seems Bits Sound Water White Muddy Cobain Patronizing

Author:Shingai Shoniwa

“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.”

Firsts Doe Made Names Water Boys Written Sick Blue Guitar Pathetic Muddy Keith Howlin Wolf

Author:Keith Richards

“I want you to learn the lesson of the lotus. This flower springs forth from muddy waters. It raises its delicate petals to the sun and perfumes the world while, at the same time, its roots cling to the elemental muck, the very essence of the mortal experience. Without that soil, the flower would wither and die.”

World Want Dies Water Sun Flower Lessons Spring Roots Essence Raises Mortals Soil Delicate I Want You Perfume Petals Muddy Elementals Lotuses

Author:Colleen Houck

“Muddy Waters was, like, the king! He had a lot of adopted sons and daughters. I was just happy to be one of them.”

Water Son Kings Daughter Adopted Muddy Son And Daughter

Author:Robert Cray

“You can't see the water until you run into it. A little boy took off running through it. He got all muddy.”

Littles Running Water Boys Little Boys Muddy

Author:Shannon O'Brien

“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.”

Littles Left Water Brain Consciousness Pure Bottom Glasses Muddy

Author:Taisen Deshimaru

“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.”

Stills Lying Water Clear Mystery Seeds Perceive Streams Stillness Muddy

Author:Laozi

“Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.”

Water Clear Muddy

Author:Laozi

Water Quotes

Related topics

Water Quotes