Buddy Guy Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.'