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All Quotes by author - Brownie McGhee
" Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though. "
Though
Wanted
Got
" 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. "
Guitar
Singer
Run
" 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. "
Time
First
Me
" 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. "
Dream
Care
Enough
" 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. "
Three
Street
New York
" I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else. "
Me
Blind
Everybody
" I only write about what I do, what happens to me. "
About
Write
Happens
" I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed. "
Guitar
Steel
Playing
" Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people. "
People
You
Blues
" 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. "
Possible
Money
Me
" My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else. "
Loud
Hell
Guitar
" 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. "
Nothing
Better
Man
" That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.' "
Enough
Kept
Liked
" There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away. "
Away
Who
Musicians
" When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long. "
Follow
Stay
People
" When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some. "
Some
You
End
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