There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
From Brownie McGhee
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
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.
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.
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.
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
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.
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