Buddy Guy Quotes

It's never hard to sing the blues. Everyone in the world has the blues . . .

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

I'm a bluesman moving through a blues-soaked America, a blues-soaked world, a planet where catastrophe and celebration - joy and pain - sit side by side.

The blues is life itself.

It is from the blues that all that may be called American music derives its most distinctive character.

We are trying to prove that the blues lives on forever and anybody in this place can sing the blues.

As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

I think the blues will always be around. People need it.

American blues can make you sad.

And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.

No matter what you got, the blues is there

I think blues music is music of the soul. Of course, there are other forms. You could call some classical music blues music in that way.

You can’t go through life not listening to music.

People, whether they know it or not, like their blues singers miserable. They like their blues singers to die afterwards.

Everything comes out in blues music: joy , pain , struggle . Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance.

This be an empty world without the blues.

The blues have always had some of the best times, best feelings I’ve ever had.

Jazz was home. It created a hunger within me.

All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.

The blues is an art of ambiguity, an assertion of the irrepressibly human over all circumstance whether created by others or by one's own human failings. They are the only consistent art in the United States which constantly remind us of our limitations while encouraging us to see how far we can actually go. When understood in their more profound implication, they are a corrective, an attempt to draw a line upon man's own limitless assertion.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

The blues and gospel stuff seemed to go together.

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.