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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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"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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Donna Grant

"I didn't think I'd be around 30 years later."

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Donna Grant

"Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One."

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Donna Grant

"Tahiti has been spoiled for many years, but Bali is one of the few cultures with origins in one of the great ancient cultures which is still alive."

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Donna Grant

"I'll be sober ten years and married nine soon."

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Donna Grant

"I was thrilled, because I like the big screen and I could then move on to the next thing. It was the biggest break for me. In a way, though, I wish it had been a TV series because then you are working for five years."

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Donna Grant

"We used to get on planes, and they'd ask who we were, and we'd say, 'The Dave Brubeck Quartet', and they'd say, 'Who?' In later years they'd say, 'Oh', which amounts to the same thing."

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Donna Grant

"Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured."

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Donna Grant

"I was just thrilled to get the gig to begin with. Ten years later to still have it is not only thrilling but also somewhat of a puzzlement."

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Donna Grant

"30 years and 55 pictures - not more than five that were any good, or any good for me."

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Donna Grant

"I also liked Daniel Craig. He's not like any other Bond. So we'll see. In 10 years I might be cursed for doing it, but I'm very grateful for what it has done for me."

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

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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."

Years

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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
"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
"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
"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."

Money

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

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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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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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