Muddy Waters Quotes

I started writing probably around when I was 15, because that's when I picked up the guitar. That was also around the same time when I began to create my own music, and everything really just clicked for me, and I knew this was what I was going to do.

I still picture myself as a student of the music. I'm always trying to learn new things. Music is just what makes me tick.

I don't feel a day older when it comes to my approach to music or what gets me off than when I was a teenager. I've always been into different kinds of stuff and when I play I like to play loud. I like my arm hairs to move and I like my body to vibrate 'cause I like the feel of it; I'm still a teenager at heart.

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I'm not losing the wonder in playing music.

I remember my brother came home with a bass and played a blues solo on it. I just went insane for days afterwards learning that.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music.

I think there is great interest amongst the younger people in this music. I think that there is a lot of them that are looking for interesting situations and music that is stimulating.

I still have a passion for the music, which is such a beautiful thing. I still wake up in the middle of the night out of a dream and have a melody in my head, and run to my piano.

Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.

The great love of my life is music.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

Every day I feel different about music, but what never changes is my love for it.

I am a Slavic musician and it is deeply inside of me.

I lived for music since I could think.

I can remember sitting at the piano. My sister was playing, and my brother was singing something, and I said, 'I want to try that.'

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most.

Music was what bothered me, what interested me.

I don't come from a musical family at all, but I realized early on I was a musician. I started begging for a piano when I was 6 years old.

Tunings are wonderfully inspiring, and it helps you to write music. If I'm stuck, you know, I change the tuning.

I try to get underneath the skin of all kinds of music, and I never know what's going to inspire me and what makes me crazy.

I began playing drums when I was seven and guitar when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until the early '90s that I took music seriously.