Buddy Guy
Buddy Guy
George "Buddy" Guyis an American blues guitarist and singer. He is an exponent of Chicago blues and has influenced guitarists including Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Keith Richards, Jeff Beck, John Mayer and Stevie Ray Vaughan. In the 1960s, Guy played with Muddy Waters as a house guitarist at Chess Records and began a musical partnership with the harmonica player Junior Wells...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth30 July 1936
CityLettsworth, LA
CountryUnited States of America
Standing between these two guys you'd have to be me to know how I'm feelin'!
The jazz and blues clubs are like the jazz and blues musicians - they're disappearing.
Even the disc jockeys are saying, if I play your record, I made you. You got to play for me free.
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me.
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.
Blues musicians don't retire. They drop.
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 for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
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 sad.' I gave them tickets to the show, and they came up afterwards and said, 'You didn't play one sad song.'
When you catch me playing something at home, it's somebody else's stuff where I can what we call steal licks from, and that's how I taught myself how to play.
What I do is when I go to the stage I forget about me.
When you play the guitar, you don't have to say nothing. The girls would say something to you.
Don't be the best in town. Just try to be the best until the best come around.
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 trouble with their husband or wife!
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 it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.