25 Quotes by Brownie McGhee

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

I didn't make too many records with Leadbelly. The truth about it, Lead had his 12-string guitar, and I was playin' a steel National.

I started a guitar school. It was called Home of the Blues, on 125th Street in New York. I did that for five, six years and had a lot of students.

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

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

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.