Greg Brown Quotes

• Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Life Is, Melons

  "Rexroth's Daughter". Song by Greg Brown, 2000.

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• Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

  Greg Brown

  Teamwork, Ambition, Incentives

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• We used to say I don't care if I never have any money As long as I have my sweet honey and a shack in the woodland Now we say I don't care if I don't have money, but it's not true We can't live without money, no, because we don't want to We want one of those and two of those, and oh that one looks neat, wrap it up Put it on my MasterCard. Put it on my Visa And I sing it now, hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it Hey hey, hey hey, who woulda thunk it.

  Greg Brown

  Sweet, Two, Long

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• I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

  Greg Brown

  Song, Thinking, People

  Interview with Maryanne Vollers, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2000.

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• I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

  Greg Brown

  Real, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think of community as being a romantic notion. I think it's as vital as air and water, and so I think that informs a lot of what I write about. It could be a story about a couple, or a song about the slow death of the family farm or a small town.

  Greg Brown

  Song, Couple, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

  Greg Brown

  Needs, News, Faces

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• I think the sweet thing about my job, more than the music I sing, is that I come into some town and a really cool community of people gets together. And they meet each other and maybe somebody falls in love or starts a little business together. I really see that as my role as I travel around the country.

  Greg Brown

  Country, Sweet, Falling In Love

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

  Greg Brown

  Rain, Guitar, Wind

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• In a mucked up lovely river, I cast my little fly. I look at that river and smell it And it makes me want to cry. Oh to clean our dirty planet, Now there's a noble wish, And I'm puttin' my shoulder to the wheel 'Cause I wanna catch some fish.

  Greg Brown

  Dirty, Rivers, Smell

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• Much is written about wine ... of its makers, its nuances, its myths. The white hot center of each wine’s mystery lies in humble corners of the world, where growers pour their intention, their character and their love of labor into each wine.

  Greg Brown

  Lying, Wine, Humble

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• My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

  Greg Brown

  Song, Jobs, Writing

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

  Greg Brown

  Song, Thinking, Excuse

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

  Greg Brown

  Fun, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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