Buddy Guy Quotes
They say the blues is sad, but when B.B. sings 'I got a sweet little angel, I love the way she spreads her wings,' that don't sound too sad to me!
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
It's kind of hard to keep going sometimes but you just have to believe in what you are and what you can do and that's the way to success.
I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.
So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly how I got here. Any way you look at it, it's a helluva story.
When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.
Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.
I didn't look up and say, "Oh, man, if I learn how to play a guitar I could make not much money, but I'd make a decent living like Eric Clapton or somebody." There wasn't nothing like that out there.
Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!
When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.
Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
I was denied a record contract for 15 years, so I'm not going to be too picky about what I do. I don't have the juice to say no too many times.
