Brownie McGhee Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Brownie McGhee:

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
~Brownie McGhee


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Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#66662235

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#4e6b0e16

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#7a061505

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#95ce4b33

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#fe19385a

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#08691a7d

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#1758aa0e

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#b3e7af5a

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#3b9fee0a

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#32192b20

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#3a02dd60

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#af6484be

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#ec9e3209

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
~Brownie McGhee


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#f68fc796

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
~Brownie McGhee


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/brownie-mcghee-quotes/#e9a624e0

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