Buddy Guy Quotes

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

If you don't think you have the blues, just keep living.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Never be the best in town. Just be the best 'til the best come around.

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

Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

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

When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

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.

I love the life I live, I live the life I love.

When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

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!