Steve Brown Quotes

“You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.”

— Steve Brown

“If there is no laughter, Jesus has gone somewhere else. If there is no joy and freedom, it is not a church: it is simply a crowd of melancholy people basking in a religious neurosis. If there is no celebration, there is no real worship.”

— Steve Brown

“Not being changed by prayer is sort of life standing in the middle of a spring rain without getting wet. It's hard to stand in the center of God's acceptance and love without getting it all over you.”

— Steve Brown

“The good news is that Christ frees us from the need to obnoxiously focus on our goodness, our commitment, and our correctness. Religious has made us obsessive almost beyond endurance. Jesus invited us to a dance ... and we've turned in into a march of soldiers, always checking to see if we're doing it right and are in step and in line with the other soldiers. We know a dance would be more fun, but we believe we must go through hell to get to heaven, so we keep marching.”

— Steve Brown

“You are really and truly and completely free. There is no kicker. There is no if, and, or but. You are free. You can do it right or wrong. You can obey or disobey. You can run from Christ or run to Christ. You can choose to become a faithful Christian or an unfaithful Christian. You can cry, cuss, and spit, or laugh, sing, and dance. You can read a novel or the Bible. You can watch television or pray. You're free ... really free.”

— Steve Brown

“The only people who get better are people who know that, if they never get better, God will love them anyway.”

— Steve Brown

“Too many people get lost in the game of having a good time and being naive about things.”

— Steve Brown

“I think there is always room for a timeless sounding rock band like us.”

— Steve Brown

“I guess it comes back to the old motto, you have you're fifteen minutes a fame.”

— Steve Brown

“One of my friends is Snake from Skid Row.”

— Steve Brown

I have known from the beginning one thing you need to know. That is, the music business is a business.

— Steve Brown

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh.

— Steve Brown

“I also have a recording studio that I use to produce bands.”

— Steve Brown

“Just tasking a team to be creative won't get you to be innovative. It's having a corporate climate that gives people the space to experiment and take risks. Only then can you truly sustain it.”

— Steve Brown

“You know, with bands like Kiss back out on the road and Aerosmith coming out, we are going to be a band like that, in the sense that it's a big rock band.”

— Steve Brown

“We did not have anyone like a manager, who could guide us and make it happen.”

— Steve Brown

Always gotta keep busy or the voices start telling me to do wild things.

— Steve Brown

“It's a big shame, because 'Trixter' in my mind were what a real rock n' roll band is all about.”

— Steve Brown

“We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did our manager and booking agent at the time, that we have really exhausted it, and we can't make money at this anymore.”

— Steve Brown

“But either way you cannot deny the sales and what we did.”

— Steve Brown

“I think we were always humble.”

— Steve Brown

“It's a bummer sometimes but I always believe that great bands and great music always prevail.”

— Steve Brown

“No it wasn't at the time cause you have to remember, I had been playing clubs since I was 13.”

— Steve Brown

“The music is fun and all that, but first and foremost it is a business, it's about money.”

— Steve Brown

“We can get airplay all across the board, from CHR to Active rock.”

— Steve Brown

“We have an amazing fan base all around the world that love 40FT.”

— Steve Brown

“We really put together a great band, and have a great time.”

— Steve Brown

“Yeah, man I am going to be writing a book soon. The reality of being in a rock band in the music business'.”

— Steve Brown

“It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.”

— Steve Brown

“God will not only love you if you don't get better; he will teach you that getting better isn't the issue. His love is the issue.”

— Steve Brown