59 Quotes by Buddy Guy

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.

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.

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.

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!

Somebody called Muddy and told him he should come down and hear me play. I didn't even know he was out there in the audience. After the show, I was talking to some people when somebody came up and slapped me upside the head.

I said, 'The groove you're in, I don't want to get in that,'

But 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.

This is the kind of record I've wanted to do all along. Anytime I can go out and play with somebody (like the musicians on the album), something gets inside of me to make my hair stand up.