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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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A.E. Samaan

"We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own."

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A.E. Samaan

"I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years."

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A.E. Samaan

"For the last few years, it's been so chic for everybody to be miserable. Like if you're in with the cool crowd, you can't be happy."

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A.E. Samaan

"It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie."

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A.E. Samaan

"For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string."

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A.E. Samaan

"I and haven't been unemployed for 20 years. I'm an exception to the rule."

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A.E. Samaan

"Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches."

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A.E. Samaan

"In later years, I craved foods that were almost always fattening."

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A.E. Samaan

"If I eat clean, I look 10 years younger."

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A.E. Samaan

"But I've consistently worked for 10 years."

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

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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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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
"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
"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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Brownie McGhee
"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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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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