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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

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I’m thankful for that. I haven’t lost my head, and I haven’t lost my desire to keep growing.
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Desire Growing Lost
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Moving Ocean Water
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.
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Clever People Trying
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.
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College Song Writing
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.
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College Song Writing
I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.
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Air Common Ocean Question Think Thinking
The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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Moving Ocean Water
I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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Acting Big Thinking
The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they’re very thankful.
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Along Gratitude People Yoga
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.
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Artists Cameras Thinking
I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn’t really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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Anything Guitar Mountains Old Professional
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I’m in nature.
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Ideas Musical Song
Nature inspires me because it’s so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
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Inspire Inward Peaceful
I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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Fall Falling Love Rain
Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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Creative Pain Process
I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that’s happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I’m saying.
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Aware Focus Happening Like

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.

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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.

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