59 Quotes by Buddy Guy

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.

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.

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.

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

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