Glen Hansard Quotes

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 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.
And I've always loved playing solo.
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.
Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
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.
I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
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.
I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
I won't say I've closed the door on acting.
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.
I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
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.
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.
In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.
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.
My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
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.
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