Greg Brown Quotations

We are pleased to work with Continental to transition our automotive business to an industry leader focused on bringing innovative solutions to automotive customers worldwide. Motorola is proud of the performance and leadership of our automotive electronics employees who will become a valuable addition to Continental. This transaction positions Motorola for continued success by further sharpening our strategic focus on communications solutions that advance our vision of Seamless Mobility.

We're going to have 13 different departments involved in this deployment

We are getting out and visiting customers more, and we are getting new customers calling,

Business customers today are demanding a wider range of data and video networking solutions to link their employees and their locations, ... Clover's capabilities are an outstanding addition to Ameritech's already strong portfolio of data services. By teaming Clover and Ameritech, we'll be able to deliver more of the solutions business customers want today.

We can match up with the hard core to the punk scene and anything in between.

Kilpatrick is young, but he can be educated. We have to do everything we can to be supportive of him, even in bad times. If our parents had given up on us, where would we be? I think he's a role model for the kids.

I think I'm part of the last generation of songwriters that are really influenced by where they grew up because things these days are becoming more and more homogenized, ... My family comes from an area with lots of rich music ... hill music that was surrounded by storytelling, so it seemed natural to me.

That's the way Danny's teams are; they peak at the right times. They're going to make a lot of noise in district.

We have to turn it around quickly because it will be real hard to get to where we want with a 1-2 record to start off the season. So we have to turn it around quickly and there's really no excuses for what happened against Florida. They just beat us.

We're trying to green up Largo and get that covered canopy look back that was once here.

This takes the Motorola automotive electronics people and assets and a significant backlog of orders and ... overnight makes this business a category leader. So we saw it as a much better strategic fit for both firms.

This transaction positions Motorola for continued success by further sharpening our strategic focus on communications solutions that advance our vision of seamless mobility.

Following in my father's footsteps is tough, but he's my mentor and he prepared me well for this.

Sam was the epitome of a community newspaper publisher, ... He was courageous, he was extremely interested in the community and its welfare and success, and his independence contributed greatly to making the Courier what it is today.

Providence is demonstrating leadership with its visionary use of wireless technology to improve public safety and the delivery of public services across the city. By deploying our high-performance mesh networking solution, Providence can rollout a single wireless network that provides secure connectivity and bandwidth to multiple municipal agencies. The resulting cost saving and productivity gains realized will provide real benefits to the entire community.

A lot of things went right for us. We've been kind of shoddy with our offense this year, so we haven't been consistent for an entire game until now.

Its such a joy coming to this stop. You can't say enough of how beautiful this place is.

It's called getting out-coached. They had an excellent game plan and his kids were ready to play. We were too hurried and couldn't get a rhythm.

It seemed like something I'd like to do, and there's a great market demand for a good product out there.

Nothing much came of that, the songs weren't very mainstream, ... But I learned a lot about songwriting from working with Buck.

Anytime there's a change to the title, the Save Our Homes cap would come off.

He's the best point guard in the state. He's the guy in our program everybody respects. He's the guy they rally around. He's our center of togetherness.

Beer sales are up a little. You know beer is as important as water to some people. Normally, we can't keep water on the shelf in a hurricane. Today we're stocked but people are buying a little more.

Collins recovered a fumble on Elk Grove's final drive to give us the ball for the last time and Cameron Ryan made a key run for a first down to seal the victory and allow us to run out the clock.

The margin is much better on used games, I'm the middleman.

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.

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.

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.

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

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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