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Buddy Guy

(1936) Guitarist United States

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Buddy Guy is a guitarist from the United States, best known for When I left home.

Quick Facts About Buddy Guy

Born: July 30, 1936
Nationality: United States
Profession: Guitarist
Notable works: When I left home

About Buddy Guy

George "Buddy" Guy is an American blues guitarist and singer-songwriter. He is an exponent of Chicago blues who has influenced generations of guitarists including Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jeff Beck, Gary Clark Jr., and John Mayer. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a session guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with blues harp virtuoso Junior Wells.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Blues Music Award Kennedy Center Honors National Medal of Arts Grammy Award for Best Blues Album Maple Blues Awards Americana Lifetime Achievement Award for Instrumentalist

Quotes by Buddy Guy · Page 2

Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask…

Ask me

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A man in Louisiana. He never called me by my name. He said boy do this and boy do that but I…

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Mother said, Son you've got to let her go. Can't you see this woman got her game up tight?

Mother

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Yeah Im a lovely babe, go ahead and plays your beg. I can make you all woman yawn, Im the best damn…

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Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.

Blues music

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

Attention

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Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That…

Couple

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Nobody loves you like I do, I am as good a sit get. Nobody loves you like I do, Im just as…

Body love

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So here I am - a 75-year-old man sitting on a bar stool in a blues club, trying to figure out exactly…

Bars

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Aw, you, you should have heard me begging. Mister blues, don't you murder me. You know, you be with me every morning,…

Every morning

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When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.

Chicago

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“I love the life I live, I live the life I love.”

Life

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Skin Deep. Skin Deep. Underneath we're all the same.

Deep

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I can't learn nothing from listening to me. That's something I already know.

Communication

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One of these early mornings. You gonna put your bad bad feet on the ground, oh yes I will, Sally.

Early morning

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When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and…

Catch me

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Oh, I've just got to let her go because this little girl is runnin' wild. I said I got to let her…

Little girl

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Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.

Mind

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

Forget

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The first time I met the blues People, you know I was walkin' down through the woods. Yes, the first time I…

First time

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Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about…

Mississippi

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I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to…

Gigs

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I sat my little child down when he was old enough to know. I said I fell in this big wide world.…

Children

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When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.

Girl

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I learn everything I play by listening to somebody else.

Communication

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