Brownie Mcghee Quotes

#1. I sang 'A Closer Walk with Thee' along with blues singer Brownie McGhee, ... Then there was a show where Carol Houston, an actress on 'Matlock' sang 'It Is Well With My Soul' accompanied by a choir. Boy, that was powerful.

Andy Griffith

#2. I remember hearing Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Big Bill Broonzy, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and not really knowing anything about the geography or the culture of the music. But for some reason it did something to me - it resonated.

Eric Clapton

#3. My favorite country blues player was Big Bill Broonzy. City blues was Freddie King, but I liked them all - Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ralph Willis, Lonnie Johnson, Brownie McGhee and the three Kings, B.B., Albert and Freddie. Jazz-wise, I listened to Django, Barney Kessel and Wes Montgomery.

Alvin Lee

#4. The ability to delegate begins with believing in the potential of people.

Paul J. Meyer

#5. Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

#11. 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.

Brownie McGhee

#12. 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.

Brownie McGhee

#13. We do not need to succumb to the temptation to meet such a violation with retaliation. The only way to heal this hurt is to give voice to what ails us. It is only in this way that we can keep our pain and loss from taking root inside us. It is only in this way that we have a chance for freedom.

Desmond Tutu

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

Brownie McGhee

#15. Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

#17. 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.

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

#21. 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.

Brownie McGhee

#22. According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.

Harry Enfield

#23. Biologists have determined brookies to be indicators of ecosystem health and have been recently campaigning to get the word out. If brookies inhabit a stream, the odds are good that the waterway is in excellent condition.

Joseph Monninger

#24. 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.

Brownie McGhee

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

Brownie McGhee

#26. I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#27. 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.

Brownie McGhee

#28. God is good, and He cannot be anything else.

Joyce Meyer