Mississippi Delta Quotes:

I always wanted to grow up fast. I longed for more than the Mississippi Delta could give.

- Charley Pride

topic: Growing Up, Mississippi Delta, Giving, Delta

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

- Muddy Waters

topic: Records, Way, Sound, Delta, Mississippi Delta

I'm from the Mississippi delta originally.

- Little Milton

topic: Delta, Mississippi, Mississippi Delta

The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.

- Lewis Nordan

source: Lewis Nordan (2003). “Wolf Whistle”, p.149, Algonquin Books

topic: Morning, Rain, Autumn, Delta, Mississippi Delta

Since I was a kid, I've had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties - but I'd never really touched on dark Americana.

- Robert Plant

topic: Kids, Dark, Chicago, Mississippi Delta, Delta Blues

I call this my church house trilogy. Souls' Chapel really was music from the Mississippi Delta, which to me is a church within itself. The Delta is the church of American Roots music. The Badlands is a cathedral without a top on it. And the Ryman has been called the Mother Church of Country Music, but to me it's the Mother Church of American Music. If you can think it up, it's been done there. In my mind, this is kind of a spiritual odyssey as much as anything else, and I had the settings of three churches to make it in.

- Marty Stuart

topic: Mother, Spiritual, Country, Delta, Mississippi Delta

Very few writers understand the complex history and maddening social order of the Mississippi Delta. For Steve Yarbrough, though, it's home turf. He is wickedly observant, funny, cynical, evocative, and he possesses a gift that cannot be taught: he can tell a story.

- John Grisham

topic: Home, Order, Cynical, Social Order, Delta

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.

- Mose Allison

source: Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

topic: Guy, Black, Fields, Delta, Mississippi Delta

It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless.

- Barack Obama

source: "Baltimore unrest as Obama pushes mentoring program" by Eric Bradner, www.cnn.com. May 5, 2015.

topic: New York, Children, Believe, Mississippi, Ferguson