"Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to……" — 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 songs, they'd run out of them."
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17 Quotes by Brownie McGhee
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I never had the blues; the blues always had me.
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When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
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Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
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That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
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When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
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I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
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I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or…
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I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
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My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
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I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
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Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
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From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't…
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