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 DENNENI 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.
More Brett Dennen Quotes
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I think there’s a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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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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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’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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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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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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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I can’t really write unless I’m full of inspiration. And even then I can’t write unless I have some alone time.
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As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people.
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I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.
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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 think there’s a certain magic that comes from being creative.
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Things aren’t always as they appear. I’ve been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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