Brett Dennen Quotes
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.
Brett Dennen
Quotes to Explore
A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
Salman Rushdie
You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
Warren Ellis
Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
Gabrielle Union
The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.
Gaylord Nelson
I love the physicality of instruments, and instruments as objects, like dancers are bodies.
Bryce Dessner
The National
As a former prosecutor, sometimes people refer to me as 'Attila the Hun.' I understand how people can get a reputation sometimes.
Mary Jo White
It's hard to fight in high heels or even jeans that are too tight. You can't kick in skinny, skinny jeans.
Krysten Ritter
If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It's most important to me that she likes what I write.
Alexi Zentner
And thou, who didst the stars and sunbeams know, Self-school'd, self-scann'd, self-honour'd, self-secure, Didst tread on earth unguess'd at. - Better so! All pains the immortal spirit must endure, All weakness which impairs, all griefs which bow, Find their sole speech in that victorious brow.
Matthew Arnold
Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
Nir Eyal
I think the thing that makes Indiana basketball special is that they have incredible teams, both college teams and pro teams, and they're all about grit.
Andy Mineo
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.
Brett Dennen