Greg Brown

Professions :

Folk musician

Born :

July 2, 1949

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess. by Greg Brown

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

melons life-is sweet

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.

incentives ambition teamwork

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way... by Greg Brown

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

song people thinking

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.

real talking thinking

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.

couple writing song

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.

sweet two long

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot li... by Greg Brown

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

guitar rain wind

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.

falling-in-love sweet country

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song. by Greg Brown

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

excuse song thinking

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs. by Greg Brown

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

writing song jobs

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.

fun mean thinking

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.

wine humble lying

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone... by Greg Brown

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

news faces needs

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.

smell rivers dirty