25 Quotes by Brownie McGhee

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.