Muddy Waters Quotes

I had a good guitar, and I was a young, young kid.

I picked up a harmonica and taught myself.

I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.

I got my first guitar in October of 1968. I'm self-taught.

I've never mastered the guitar. Either I was playing it, or it was playing me; it depends how you look at it. As a kid, the only things I had to do was go to school, do my homework, and play guitar.

Age isn't a barrier to playing the bass, and I've definitely improved over the years, although maybe I'm not as flash as I once was. But looking back, I can't imagine a life without a guitar.

I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

I played guitar from the age of four or five. Every year there would be a slightly larger triangular box under the Christmas tree, until finally I got one that was big enough to make a proper sound.

I am playing the violin, that's all I know, nothing else, no education, no nothing. You just practice every day.

My father was in a dance band, and I wanted to do what he did, play the saxophone, but I couldn't blow a note, so he suggested the guitar. Chromatic harmonica was actually my first instrument, and I got very good at it - not quite Stevie Wonder, but very good.

I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.

To me, the object of practicing is to allow you to play what you hear. But you're always hearing new things, so you never get to the end of it.

A lot of drummers get sidetracked by the instrument. It can engulf you.

From an early age, I was infatuated with music. I always loved it and was always dancing or playing something.

I started playing guitar when I was in my late teens, and within two years I was starting to play shows.

I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.

Obviously you have to have rhythm. If you have rhythm, then you can play anything you need. If you have rhythm and you love music, then play and play and play until you get to where you want to get. If you can pay the rent, great. If you can't, then you'd better be having fun.

I started bands at a pretty young age and played with my friends back in Detroit. I've always known that I wanted to do this. It was all I was ever interested in doing. I never had, outside of music, any extracurricular activities that I took part in.

Soccer presented no challenge to me. Playing felt like breathing: I always had a magical connection to the ball. But it didn't feel like an adventure. Music was more of a challenge and, in the end, felt more interesting.

The accordion was the first instrument I played, when I was 7 years old.

The best way for me to teach myself an instrument is to just jam on it, and sound awful sometimes, and sound great other times.

A family friend was staying with us once and had brought over a ukulele. I just loved the way she played it. I saved up the money from my 11th birthday and went out and bought one for myself.

I've always had an instrument attached to my body.