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

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee

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 stre…

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee

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 t…

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee

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

- Brownie Mcghee