Brett Dennen Quotes

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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• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Strength
  • Determination

• You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Day
  • Singing
  • Cold

• Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

  

  Jack Welch
  • You
  • Change
  • Lead

• German writers in the late 18th century were the first to uphold a prickly, literary nationalism, in reaction to the then dominance and prestige of French literature.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Literature
  • First
  • German

• The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Movie
  • Black
  • Small

• Revolution in the modern case is no longer an uncouth business.

  

  Garet Garrett
  • Business
  • Revolution
  • Modern

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• Autumn in New York, why does it seem so inviting?

  

  Vernon Duke
  • Why
  • New York
  • Autumn

• I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Comedy
  • Never
  • Violence

• There's so many great designers. I'm a little bit of a vintage junkie when it comes to going out. I like to get unique pieces that you won't see everyone wearing, but at the same time I don't like to break the bank. I like to find great vintage pieces that you can hold on to for a long time.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Best

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Personality

• I feel I am a little unfit for the kind of music that is being made today. There is a big difference between what I sang earlier and what is being made now. I am not saying this music is bad, but there are too many beats.

  

  Lata Mangeshkar
  • Music
  • Today
  • Difference

• In order to obtain the optimum view of what takes place in front of me, I should have to lower my eyes a little. But I lower my eyes no more. In a word, I only see what appears close beside me, what I best see I see ill.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Eyes

• 'Aye. Like knows like, sister'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Sister

• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Husband

• I, for my part, do not conceive an act as having causes, and I consider myself satisfied when I have found in it not its ‘factors’ but the general themes which it organizes: for our decisions gather into new syntheses and on new occasions the leitmotif that governs our life

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Life

• I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
  • Play
  • Stuff
  • Android

• But if you pick up every other magazine, it is the peanut butter diet, or the cabbage soup diet, and then you go to the radio and you hear that you can drink some solution and you will lose weight overnight. It just does not work that way!

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Lose
  • Radio
  • Weight

• I found a favorite chord, which is B flat 7 - that's my favorite chord.

  

  Jens Lekman

• In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Better
  • Songs
  • Exciting

• I've really learned a lot from Zac Brown over the years. He is someone that I consider to be one of my best friends, and besides my parents, he has taught me more than anyone else. Zac is, by nature, a giving and understanding person.

  

  Coy Bowles Zac Brown Band
  • Friends
  • Nature
  • Parents

• I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Songs