Buddy Guy Quotes

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• Your mind is on vacation and your mouth is working overtime.
• If you don’t think you have the blues, just keep living.
• Everyone thinks because you're from the south you know everyone down there, but it's not like that; I never knew nothing about no Mississippi.
• Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot…
• 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…
• When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing.  The girls would say something to you.
• Once I was checking to hotel and a couple saw my ring with Blues on it. They said, 'You play blues. That music is so…
• Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having…
• 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…
• If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.
• 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 be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
• I'm gonna play something so funky you can smell it
• When I went to Chicago, I'll put it like this: I was looking for a dime and I found a quarter.
• I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself…
• 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.
• The first time I met the blues People, you know I was walkin' down through the woods. Yes, the first time I met the blues.…
• You stopped by my house first, Mister Blues and blues, you didn't do me much good. You, should have heard me beggin. Blues, don't murder…
• Aw, you, you should have heard me begging. Mister blues, don't you murder me. You know, you be with me every morning, Mister Blues. I…
• Ah, good morning, good morning, Mister Blues. I'd like to know what you're doing here so soon.

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