Top 235 Muddy Quotes & Sayings

Words are cold, muddy toads trying to understand sprites dancing in a field-but they're all we have.

I always dress scruffily, but at weekends I live in muddy Wellies.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

If a frog becomes a king, he will make the whole kingdom muddy!

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

I'm not trying to top the 'Muddy Waters' album. What I'm doing by naming it 'Muddy Waters 2' is to let you relive that '90s kind of sound and experience.

Hardly a day goes by without me sticking on a Muddy Waters record.

When it seems like the night will last forever, And there's nothing left to do but count the years, When the strings of my harp to sever, And stones fall from my eyes instead of tears... I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And dream me a dream of my own, I will walk alone by the black muddy river, And sing me a song of my own.

The lotus grows in muddy waters but this flower does not show any trace of it: So we have to live in the world.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, and black despair succeeds brown study.

Historically, you've had really muddy, unforgiving, unintentional images of black people.

I love Bach cello suites, I love punk music, I love old blues, negro spiritual quartets, Muddy Waters' 'You Need Love.' There is a simplicity but also a bite that connects all that music, from the growl in the cello to the timbre in Muddy's voice.

I grew up listening to Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and lots of blues, R&B and Motown.

I conquered my phobia of camping, although I doubt I'll be pitching my tent at a muddy festival any time soon.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

Invention flags, his brain goes muddy, And black despair succeeds brown study.

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.

Muddy water, let stand, becomes clear.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

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.

After years of touring you experience music festivals that are mostly the same - where you copy and paste the same experience into a muddy field in California or a muddy field in England.

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

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.

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.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I definitely played on a lot of muddy northern pitches.

Let muddy water stand and it will become clear.

Little Walter and Muddy Waters were incredible. And Bo Diddley was doing some great stuff, too.

The hippo of recollection stirred in the muddy waters of the mind.

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

When I started workin' with Muddy. That convinced me that I could get away with doin' the blues.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ.

The whole 'Muddy Waters' title is not about things look or how deep it can get or it can be. It's just the slouchiness of the album.

Active minds that think and study, like swift brooks are seldom muddy.

There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it's flashing glory.

If I sang the way I talk it would sound like "Tommy Steele sings Muddy Waters!"

I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory.

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

The best slide guitar, unless you're playing the Muddy Waters-style, is the old '52 Goldtop Les Paul.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

The muddy moods of oil paints are the painter's muddy humors, and its brilliant transformations are the painter's unexpected discoveries.

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.

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.

Wet sneakers and muddy clothes are prerequisites for understanding the water cycle.

Why did the reindeer wear black boots? Because his brown ones were all muddy!

I feel like a midget with muddy feet had been walking over my tongue all night.

Well, one of the best things is workin' with Muddy.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

It is part of the business of marketing to muddy the distinction between altruism and cynicism.

I'd rather sink with a bad theory than swim with muddy pragmatism.

I have only a mind to live, to enjoy - i.e., to work as an artist, and produce my works; but not for the muddy brains of the common herd.

The muddy rivers of spring Are snarling Under the muddy skies. The mind is muddy.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

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

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty.