People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.
BRETT DENNENSongs 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.
More Brett Dennen Quotes
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A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it’s moody, and storm is coming, there’s an energy in the air.
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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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Every song is completely different. Sometimes they come like a lump of clay and it’s your job to chip away and find out what’s in the center. Sometimes it comes like swimming fish, and you have to follow it and see where it leads. Sometimes it comes totally fragmented.
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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 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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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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A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it’s moody, and storm is coming, there’s an energy in the air.
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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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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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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.
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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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Pain is a part of life. It’s certainly part of my creative process.
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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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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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