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Brownie McGhee

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

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Akiroq Brost

"I've got 50 different tunings in the guitar."

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Akiroq Brost

"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."

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Akiroq Brost

"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."

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Akiroq Brost

"Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now."

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Akiroq Brost

"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'll always do the guitar parts since it's my main instrument."

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Akiroq Brost

"I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes."

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Akiroq Brost

"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."

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Akiroq Brost

"The greatest guitar player in the world today for me is Paco de Lucia, who is actually Spanish."

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Brownie McGhee
"My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else."

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

Music

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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 streets again."

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

People

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

End

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Brownie McGhee
"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."

Time

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Brownie McGhee
"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."

Dream

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Brownie McGhee
"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."

Musicians

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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 them."

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

Guitar

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