"I was playing with steel picks on a……" — Brownie McGhee
"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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17 Quotes by Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee has 17 quotes on this site.
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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 got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or…
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Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know…
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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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[In the Royal Society, there] has been, a constant Resolution, to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style:…
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Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By…
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Some of the most remarkable and profound worship encounters I've experienced have happened in churches with no production, no lighting,…
— Tim Hughes
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When a human being without amplification makes a sound that is high and loud, it is almost unworldly.
— Renee Fleming
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Most of what happens in the world is just a consequence of natural, universal laws- laws that apply everywhere and…
— PZ Myers
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The relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios - the overwhelming and underlying desire for…
— Adam Gopnik
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The art of reasoning becomes of first importance. In this line antiquity has left us the finest models for imitation;…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a…
— Alan Jay Lerner
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The relation of repetitions for learning and for repeating English stanzas needs no amplification. These were learned by heart on…
— Hermann Ebbinghaus
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Yeah, look, I think what we have with the social media and the digital media, and all the telecommunications we…
— Mike DeWine
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I attach the greatest importance to an amplification of the peace efforts in the Middle East. I would also like…
— Francois Hollande
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The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies…
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