Buddy Guy Quotes
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I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
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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.
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Blues is like American Express. I don't leave home without it.
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When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.
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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!
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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.
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The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
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I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it
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Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.
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Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
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What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.
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Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
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I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.
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Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
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Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
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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.
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I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.
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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.
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I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.
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When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
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Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!
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If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.
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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.
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They just said, 'Roll the tape.' No rehearsal or nothing... Muddy [Waters] didn't come in and say 'I wanna rehearse.' He used to look at me and say 'Let's just play the blues. That's all you need to do.
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