Top 55 Mcghee Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
Kate DiCamillo
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 'Someone's gonna die before this is over,' I said to Doc McGhee. [...]
'I don't think someone's gonna die, Ozzy. I think we're all gonna die.'
Ozzy Osbourne
#6. Every morning for, I don't know how long, I came over to Alison's [McGhee] house and we sat in her office and wrote the stories "out loud" together. We yelled at each other and made each other laugh. It was a lot of fun.
Kate DiCamillo
#7. It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.'
Alison McGhee
#8. We all walk around with a stone in our shoe, Younger. William T.
Alison McGhee
#9. Little boy, you remind me how so much depends of day made of now
Alison McGhee
#12. I shiver and Tom wakes. It's light enough to see his eyes open.
"Are you cold?" he says. "Baby, are you cold?"
He turns so that his arms are around me again. Baby, are cold?-and the ball of hurt inside me swells.
Alison McGhee
#13. Let me tell you that a girl of eleven is capable of far more than is dreamt of in most universes...
Alison McGhee
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
Brownie McGhee
#17. I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
Alison McGhee
#18. But there's more to this world than meets the eye, isn't there?
Alison McGhee
#19. Air you breathe holds the breath of all things.
Alison McGhee
#21. That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
Brownie McGhee
#22. The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
Brownie McGhee
#25. When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
Brownie McGhee
#26. Don't hurt someone who cares about you like that. You're not the only person in the world who's ever been hurt. Don't be cruel. Don't go breaking someone else's heart in the hope that you'll feel better. Becaues you won't.
Alison McGhee
#28. Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."
He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.
Alison McGhee
#29. Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.
Alison McGhee
#31. Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.
Alison McGhee
#32. Water seeks its own level. Look at them. The Tigris, the Euphrates, the Mississippi, the Amazon, the Yangtze. The world's great rivers. And every one of them finds its way to the ocean.
Alison McGhee
#33. 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
#35. My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
Brownie McGhee
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
Brownie McGhee
#39. A kindred spirit," said Vole, "is someone who understands the deepest dream of your heart.
Alison McGhee
#40. Feel how tight my arms are around you?" he said. "This is how tight I'll be holding you. No matter where you go or where I go, remember how tight I'm holding you.
Alison McGhee
#41. There comes a time, Younger," he says, "when the book must be put aside, and the pedal put to the metal. And that time, by God, has come." William T.
Alison McGhee
#42. I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
Brownie McGhee
#43. Living without love is worse than dying, Younger. William T.
Alison McGhee
#44. Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
Brownie McGhee
#45. Are any of us safe? How do we make it through? How, when you know you are going to leave this life whether you want to or not - when you know that you and everyone you love will leave this life - do we make it? I don't want to die.
Alison McGhee
#46. There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
Brownie McGhee
#48. There comes a point at which you stop giving things up. That is what i won't give up. None of it will i give up, for my beautiful sister Ivy who lies in bed. Ivy who used to be alive. Ivy who used to be. Ivy who used. Ivy who.
Ivy-who-is-not-me.
Not me. Not me. Not me.
Alison McGhee
#50. 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
#51. I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge.
Alison McGhee
#52. You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.
Alison McGhee
#53. I'm a big State Fair person, and my main goal is to eat as much food as possible, but I tend not to do the foods on a stick. But I like Big Fat Bacon.
Alison McGhee
#54. If you know how to read, you know how forever. You can't unread.
Alison McGhee
#55. I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.
Brownie McGhee
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