Jeffrey Brown Quotes

I've always been a 'write first' artist: the drawings are always in service of the writing.

Jeffrey Brown

Quotes to Explore

Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.

Walter Kirn
- Writing
- Future
- Past
I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

Ornette Coleman
- People
- Up
- Good
The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler
- People
- Important
- Service
You get on the radio by writing your own songs. But we had the dilemma of not being able to play anywhere because we weren't able to play anything that anyone wanted to hear. So we learned songs that we thought that we could do without puking.

Wayne Kramer
- Writing
- Play
- Thought
When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.

E. L. Doctorow
- Writing
- Book
- Doing
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.

Sammy Cahn