Brownie McGhee Quotes

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

  Brownie McGhee

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• Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

  Brownie McGhee

  Dream

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Appreciate, Ems, Path

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

  Brownie McGhee

  People, Folks, Blues Music

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Sympathy, Guitar, Hell

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Attitude, Smart, Boys

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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 no more songs, they'd run out of them.

  Brownie McGhee

  Running, Song, Guitar

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Guitar, Steel, Amplification

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Hiking, Crowds, Enough

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• 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

  New York, Years, Ukulele

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Hiking, Long, People

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Writing, Happens

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

  Brownie McGhee

  Wanted

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