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 Copy Share Image
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
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… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived.… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
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… — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude. — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.' — Brownie McGhee Copy Share Image
