Topic: What'd I Say - Quote Drive 2008

[Chezztone]

I told a white fellow once, ?If you were black for one Saturday night and on Beale Street, never would you want to be white again.?
?Rufus Thomas

[Bunker Hill]

I've just seen the following quote displayed:

"I saw Johnny Shines with Robert Lockwood in London many years ago - a two night stint. ... At the end of the second night, some fool in the audience shouts, "Johnny Shines, you are a sexist!" Shines says, "What?" Guy repeats it. Shines says, "Texas? I don't know nothing about Texas." Collapse of interlocutor - Johnny Shines, by Chris Smith on prewarblues list"

I too was present at that incident and for what it's worth it took place at the 100 Club, Sunday 28th October 1979.

[Mr.OMuck]

Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brownie McGhee

I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
Brownie McGhee

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
Brownie McGhee

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

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

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

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
Brownie McGhee

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

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

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

[dj]

Nice quotes, O'Muck.  What's the source?
 

[Parlor Picker]

I too was present at that incident and for what it's worth it took place at the 100 Club, Sunday 28th October 1979.

What a memory!  Do you recall what colour socks you were wearing at the time?  I'm terrible with dates.

[Bunker Hill]

I too was present at that incident and for what it's worth it took place at the 100 Club, Sunday 28th October 1979.

What a memory!  Do you recall what colour socks you were wearing at the time?  I'm terrible with dates.

Nah, not all down to memory, I've kept every pocket diary back to 1966, so it was just a case of thumbing through the 1979 one until I spotted the Shines/Lockwood.

[Mr.OMuck]

 

Nice quotes, O'Muck.  What's the source?
 

Teriyaki or Hollandaise. (ba dum dum!)

The web sees all, reveals all!

[Parlor Picker]

Nah, not all down to memory, I've kept every pocket diary back to 1966, so it was just a case of thumbing through the 1979 one until I spotted the Shines/Lockwood.
[/quote]

Surprised they let you in, Alan.  After all, you were only a babe in arms then... 

[Moo, eh!]

As a self-described blues purist, Jorma Kaukonen never had any ambition to play in a rock band.  Invited to attend a Jefferson Airplane rehearsal by founding member Paul Kantner, Kaukonen found his imagination excited by the arsenal of effects available to electric guitar and later said, "I was sucked in by technology."
...from Wikipedia

[dj]

"Blues" music was created to chase away gloom...  The Happy-go-lucky songs of the Southern Negro we call "Blues" - W. C. Handy, 1919.  "The Father of the Blues" points out that you've got to be happy if you want to sing the Blues.  Quoted by Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff in "They Cert'ly Sound Good To Me: Sheet Music, Southern Vaudeville, And The Commercial Ascendancy Of The Blues" in Ramblin' On My Mind, David Evans, ed.

[Mr.OMuck]

ALBERT SCHWEITZER:
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

[uncle bud]

ALBERT SCHWEITZER:
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Ahem. Not to fly in the face of the great Dr. Schweitzer. But... 

Dogs. Always, dogs. Cats are simply malodorous coyote food...

Unless he meant music cats.

 

[Mr.OMuck]

He was! Referring to music cats I mean. He had a swell little combo comprised of thirteen pipe organs and a washboard. Swung some shit too!

[Coyote Slim]

ALBERT SCHWEITZER:
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Ahem. Not to fly in the face of the great Dr. Schweitzer. But... 

Dogs. Always, dogs. Cats are simply malodorous coyote food...

Oh, hell no!  I won't eat no stanky pu -- can I say that in here?   

[uncle bud]

SENTENCE BLIND MUSICIAN FOR ASSAULT - Columbia, S. C., July 17. - (A. N. P.): Simmie Dooley, blind musician, has been sentenced to serve two months in the State penitentiary having been found guilty of a charge of assault and battery. Dooley's chief instrument is a guitar which he plays so well that while being brought to jail he earned nearly ten dollars from people along the way. -- Norfolk Journal and Guide, July 19, 1924.