Brownie McGhee

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at…

— Brownie McGhee

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more…

— Brownie McGhee

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years…

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural…

— Brownie McGhee

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

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…

— Brownie McGhee

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

— Brownie McGhee

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…

— Brownie McGhee

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

— Brownie McGhee

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

— Brownie McGhee