Latest Brett Dennen Quotes from Interviews

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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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  Kids, Different, Chance

• I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.

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  Thinking, Acting, Bigs

• It's cool to be healthy now! It's cool to, like, drink fresh juices and drink Kombucha and all that stuff.

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  Healthy, Juice, Stuff

• I'm an avid juicer and a healthy eater.

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  Avid, Healthy

• I like fish and a lot of seaweed, but I don't eat bread or dairy or anything like that. It's kind of like in the macrobiotic world. I'm just a healthy eater who loves to juice.

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  Healthy, Juice, World

• I don't wanna limit myself to anything, but I eat like a vegetarian and I eat mostly raw.

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  Limits, Vegetarian

• 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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  Thinking, Fifty, Matter

• I think the two biggest issues are world hunger and health, and all the things that stem from bad food.

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  Thinking, Two, Issues

• I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.

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  Song, Jobs, Hands

• I think food is the great equalizer. Other than the ocean and the air, food is the thing that we all share in common. I think along with that comes the question of why are some people starving, and why do some people produce more food than they need, and why is food going to waste.

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  Ocean, Thinking, Air

• 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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  Song, Jobs, Swimming

• I 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.

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  Song, Writing, Play

• 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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  Song, Secret, Singing

• Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.

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  Hurt, Pain, Moving

• Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth; you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.

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  Heart, Criticism, Easy

• Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.

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  Pain, Creative, Process

• 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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  Thinking, Artist, Feelings

• 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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  Art, Love Is, Creative

• I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative.

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  Thinking, Creative, Magic

• 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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  Song, Writing, College

  "10 Questions: Brett Dennen". Interview with Nichole Wagner, www.uncommonmusic.org. June 9, 2011.

• I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. 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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  Stars, Men, Rocks

  Source: www.uncommonmusic.org

• Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.

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  Hero, Tickets, Kind

  Source: renownedforsound.com

• I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.

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  Song, Writing, High Standards

  Source: renownedforsound.com

• 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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  Inspiration, Writing, Alone Time

  Source: renownedforsound.com

• I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

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  Inspiration, Want, Kind

  Source: renownedforsound.com