American - Musician | November 30, 1915 - February 16, 1996
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Brownie McGhee
MusicPeopleYouFindBluesOut
Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
GoGotAnywhereThoughWanted
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
SympathyGuitarHellLoudAnybody
When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
PathEndAppreciateYouNeverSome
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.
GuitarKnowRunListenMoreSinger
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.
TimeMeFirstUpNaturalStarted
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.
FuturePastMeCareEnoughDream
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.
New YorkBackNewThreeStreetUp
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
MeBlindBoyStreetsLikeEverybody
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
MeWriteOnlyHappensAbout
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
GuitarSteelPlayingNeededPicks
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.
MoneyMeLongPossibleLittleTake
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