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.
BRETT DENNENThings 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.
More Brett Dennen Quotes
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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 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 think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it’s an addictive feeling.
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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 most artists would agree, it’s one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that’s loving it, it’s another thing to add cameras, but it’s a really cool trade off to be on television.
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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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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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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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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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I 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.
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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 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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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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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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I’m an avid juicer and a healthy eater.
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