Brownie McGhee's Quotes

Walter Brown “Brownie” McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

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Brownie McGhee about Good:

There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass ...
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Brownie McGhee about Me:

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

Brownie McGhee about Guitar:

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

Brownie McGhee about Music:

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just ...
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Brownie McGhee about Future:

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take ...
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Walter Brown “Brownie” McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration gone the harmonica artiste Sonny Terry.

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Brownie McGhee about Go:

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

Brownie McGhee about Listen:

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 about Future:

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 got enough behind me that I can write forever.

Brownie McGhee about Time:

From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time, he was singin' falsetto.

Brownie McGhee about Me:

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

Brownie McGhee about New:

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 about Guitar:

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

Brownie McGhee about Me:

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

Brownie McGhee about Money:

Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.

Brownie McGhee about Music:

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

Brownie McGhee about Big:

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

Brownie McGhee about Time:

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 ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.

Brownie McGhee about Sympathy:

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

Brownie McGhee about People:

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

Brownie McGhee about Good:

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

Brownie McGhee about Path:

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