Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gwendolyn Brooks

Nothing could stop Mississippi.

Mose Allison

I don't remember any impression [from blues].The blues was just everywhere in the Mississippi Delta. It was mostly black sharecroppers living there, and there was a lot of blues around. Sometimes the guys would sing the blues in the fields, working.

Little Milton

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

Muddy Waters

That Mississippi sound, that Delta sound is in them old records. You can hear it all the way through.

Matthew Arnold

History - a vast Mississippi of falsehoods