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.
BRETT DENNENI think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
More Brett Dennen Quotes
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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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I can write songs, but I’m not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I’m not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
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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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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don’t have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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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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I think there’s a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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I love being creative, and for me it doesn’t matter what it is – whether it’s art or music or just daydreaming.
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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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The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
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It’s usually kids that normally don’t have a chance to get to meet each other because they’re separated by millions of different things.
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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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