Glen Hansard Quotes

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• As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

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  Song, Self, Play

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

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  Girl, Cynical, Joy

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• A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

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  Music, Song, Rest Of Your Life

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• Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

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  Powerful, Imagination, Allies

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• If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

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  Office, Ships, Another Day

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• I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.

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  Live Life, Writing, Thinking

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.

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  Song, Moving, Finding Yourself

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

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  Believe, People, Lessons

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• Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

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  Distance, Space, Imagination

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• I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?

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  Thinking, Class, Issues

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.

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  Wall, Writing, Wearing Black

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• Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.

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  Reading, Past, Cities

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.

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  Funny Things, Decision, Intellectual

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

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  Sadness, Artist, Thinking

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

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  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

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  Relaxation, Important, Facts

  "Singer-songwriter Glen Hansard". "The Tavis Smiley show", www.pbs.org. June 18, 2012.

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• The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

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  Technology, Smartphones, People

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• I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

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  Editing, Ideas, Creative

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• And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.

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  Might, Reason, Mood

  "Glen Hansard of The Swell Season". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 10, 2009.

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• I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.

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  Character, Forever, Soul

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. January 17, 2008.

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• I won't say I've closed the door on acting.

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  Doors, Acting

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• There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.

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  Song, Writing, People

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• Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

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  Conflict

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• My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

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  Dad, Want, Quiet

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• I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

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  Air, Cynical, Music Is

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