A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it’s moody, and storm is coming, there’s an energy in the air.
BRETT DENNENI think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.
More Brett Dennen Quotes
-
-
I think most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.
BRETT DENNEN -
I love being creative, and for me it doesn’t matter what it is – whether it’s art or music or just daydreaming.
BRETT DENNEN -
I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
BRETT DENNEN -
I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
BRETT DENNEN -
I wanted to be a singer. I wanted to be a musician. I wanted to travel and write songs and be a good songwriter. It came to me slowly after college.
BRETT DENNEN -
I’m a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I’m not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that’s what yoga’s about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.
BRETT DENNEN -
I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.
BRETT DENNEN -
Songs don’t really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I’m singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
BRETT DENNEN -
When you get to say something in a song you’re not directing it necessarily at one person. When it’s in a song it’s easier to get it out. I don’t really worry so much about it when I’m writing a song.
BRETT DENNEN -
I sing the best when I’m really in my voice. It’s kind of like I’m meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
BRETT DENNEN -
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
BRETT DENNEN -
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
BRETT DENNEN -
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
BRETT DENNEN -
What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
BRETT DENNEN -
I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
BRETT DENNEN