Brett Dennen Quotes

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.

Brett Dennen

• Job
• Balance
• Craft
• Songwriter

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• There is no question that chemical weapons attacks are a heinous abuse of humanity and power. But to assume that military strikes are an effective retribution for the crime committed is wrong.

  

  Basmah bint Saud
  • Power
  • Question
  • Humanity

• Gory stuff can be shocking but it doesn't really scare me. I'd say the kind of stuff that gets under my skin is the unknown. You hear a knock behind a wall and you don't know what it is. Is there something there or not?

  

  Oren Peli
  • Unknown
  • Scare
  • Shocking

• I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.

  

  Edmund White
  • Good
  • American
  • Writer

• Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Good
  • Friends
  • Father

• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Kids
  • Water
  • Hell

• I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Thing

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Believe
  • Society
  • Me

• I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Character
  • Action
  • Drama

• I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Hate
  • Stop
  • Television

• There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.

  

  Gary Busey
  • Life
  • Good
  • Actor

• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • People
  • World
  • Youth

• I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.

  

  Owain Yeoman
  • People
  • Love
  • Challenge

• A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Heart
  • Kind
  • Smile

• We are a Nation of peace and compassion, yet these people have and will devote every fiber of their beings to the destruction of Americans and our Country.

  

  Charles Bass
  • People
  • Country
  • Peace

• It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

  

  John B. S. Haldane
  • Universe

• I should probably confess that I get bored easily, which explains my reluctance to work with formula, tropes, whatever.

  

  Kit Reed
  • Work
  • Bored

• I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews.

  

  Geoff Hoon
  • Job
  • Experience
  • Future

• It's often discouraging sitting working at home, wondering whether to put the heating on, answering the doorbell to the gas board, feeling it's all utterly pointless.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Working

• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Recruiting
  • Needles
  • Haystack

• 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.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Job
  • Balance
  • Craft