Buddy Guy Quotes

Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.

The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they talk about how well it's aged. But I don't think that goes for him. I think this young man has just stepped in there sayin', 'I'm gonna prove you all wrong.' I think he's like a watermelon, man. He's ripe.

Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.

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.

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

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.

I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.

I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.

Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!

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.

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.

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.