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.
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop. - Buddy Guy
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
- Buddy Guy
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter. - Buddy Guy
When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if… - Buddy Guy
I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if…
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around. - Buddy Guy
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing. - Buddy Guy
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
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! - Buddy Guy
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!
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. - Buddy Guy
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.
I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it - Buddy Guy
I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it
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. - Buddy Guy
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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