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.
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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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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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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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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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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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar.
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I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.
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I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That’s purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?
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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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