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

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

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

Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.

- 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.

- 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!

- Buddy Guy

I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it

- Buddy Guy

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

- Buddy Guy