Greg Brown Sayings

#1. People are in the dark, they don't know what to do I had a little lantern, oh but it got blown out too. I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you. - GREG BROWN, "IN THE DARK WITH YOU" T

Neil Gaiman

#2. I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.

John Wooden

#3. I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

Greg Brown

#4. Coming for her. Because I'm its ... mate. Oh, man, that couldn't be good. She wanted this centaur to get her away from that wolf! She screamed against her gag, "Moo ur ass! Hu-y!"
Chloe

Kresley Cole

#5. My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

Greg Brown

#6. They say: "We're all immigrants." They mean: You hate brown people. You say: "I'm just for a line. Stand in line, asshole.

Greg Gutfeld

#7. Today, certain people file for bankruptcy, businesses and individuals, and it no longer has the stigma it once had. Now it's almost considered wise, a way to regroup and come back again.

David Dinkins

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

Greg Brown

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. I'm not a scientist. If there is a risk to our environment, there will be no fracking.

Nicola Sturgeon

#12. Life is a thump-ripe melon ... it's so sweet and such a mess ...

Greg Brown

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

Greg Brown

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

Greg Brown

#15. To some degree, I was very dubious of the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' idea - taking a theme park ride and turning into a film - even though they seemed to end up being quite fun films.

Peter Jackson

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Greg Brown

#19. A man never stood so tall as when he stooped to help a child.

John Ruskin

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Greg Brown