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.
BRETT DENNENI also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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 have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I’m in nature.
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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 don’t wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.
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I’m an avid juicer and a healthy eater.
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Follow your heart and you won’t get lost.
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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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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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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 also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain – that is the most inspiring thing.
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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 ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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The ocean inspires me because there’s the energy of the water moving.
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I’m a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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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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