Brett Dennen Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Thinking, Acting, Bigs

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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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  Couple, Thinking, Meditation

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• Everyone wants to know what kind of music their favorite artist listens to. It feels good to. I don't try to dwell on that too much though.

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  Artist, Feel Good, Trying

  Source: www.bloginity.com

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• People really respond to the songs when I play them in concert. Every song comes from a different place emotionally or from a different headspace.

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  Song, Play, People

  Source: www.gigslutz.co.uk

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• When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.

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  Kids, House, World

  Source: www.tntechoracle.com

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• I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

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  Song, Writing, Heart

  Source: www.gigslutz.co.uk

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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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  Song, Ideas, Musical

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• Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.

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  Inspire, Peaceful, Inward

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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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  Falling In Love, Rain, Fall

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• I'm a very typical yoga-practicing musician; I do it when I can. I'm not hardcore about it. A lot of my lyrics talk about celebrating life and working through pain. I think that's what yoga's about, getting rid of, moving energy and letting it flow through you.

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  Pain, Moving, Yoga

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• 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.

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  Clever, People, Trying

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• I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.

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  Song, Moving, Writing

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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. That's one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.

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  Gratitude, Yoga, People

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• When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.

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  Song, Writing, Worry

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• Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.

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  Song, Writing, Thinking

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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

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• 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

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

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  Avid, Healthy

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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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  Limits, Vegetarian

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

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  Thinking, Creative, Magic

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• 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

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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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  Song, Jobs, Swimming

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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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  Song, Secret, Singing

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• 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

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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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  Song, Writing, College

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

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