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There's this unspoken thing t...

There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.

Glen Hansard 53 quotes

I absolutely adore the alchem...

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

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I think inside every rock jou...

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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Relationships can be about yo...

Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.

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I think it's very interesting...

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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I grew up wearing black arm-b...

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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We saw too much beauty to be ...

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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This weird thing that musicia...

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

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If you stand still in any cit...

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

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Well, playing a guy who write...

Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.

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I only ever really take out m...

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

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If you don't mark your succes...

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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Sadness is a very interesting...

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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Well, everything about singin...

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

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I choose to believe that ther...

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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And for some reason, when I'm...

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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I've always felt that if I ev...

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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The moment of drifting into t...

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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As a busker, one thing that d...

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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A song is like a saddle: you ...

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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