Glen Hansard Quotes

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• We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many…
• Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started…
• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put…
• Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to…
• If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in…
• Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
• As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and…
• A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for…
• And I've always loved playing solo.
• Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
• I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
• I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
• I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
• I won't say I've closed the door on acting.
• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
• I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
• Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen…
• My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
• Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
• There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

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