Brownie McGhee Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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