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My life at home is super simp...

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.

Glen Hansard 53 quotes

I'm not an actor, and I'll ne...

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

Glen Hansard 53 quotes

I've realized, you know, havi...

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

Glen Hansard 53 quotes

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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Keeping the pen out of your h...

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.

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The muse holds no appointment...

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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You know, when I was a kid wa...

You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.

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Our imagination just needs sp...

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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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.

Glen Hansard 53 quotes

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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