Brownie McGhee famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Sympathy #Guitar #Hell
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
-- Brownie McGhee

#Writing
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
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
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
-- Brownie McGhee

#Guitar #Steel #Amplification
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
-- Brownie McGhee

#Hiking #Long #People
That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
-- Brownie McGhee

#Hiking #Crowds #Enough
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
-- Brownie McGhee

#People #Folks #Folk Music
When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
-- Brownie McGhee

#Appreciate #Ems #Path
I never had the blues; the blues always had me.
-- Brownie McGhee
Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
-- Brownie McGhee

#Wanted

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