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Brownie McGhee

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

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

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"I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one."

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"I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name."

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"I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals."

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"In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion."

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"Recognition of belligerency as an expression of sympathy is all very well."

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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community."

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"But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

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"He bit his lip in a manner which immediately awakened my maternal sympathy, and I helped him bite it."

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"I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long."

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"Motherhood is at its best when the tender chords of sympathy have been touched."

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"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."
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"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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"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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"When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some."
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"There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away."
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"I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed."
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"Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people."
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"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."
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"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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