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

• Writing
• Song
• Worry

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• I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • College
  • Crazy
  • Weird

• I got into politics because businessmen should be spending your money.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Money
  • Politics
  • Got

• I did not want to go out at 5:30 in the morning with my stocking cap and my navy pea coat on and shoot lines and grades for the rest of my life.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Rest

• Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Road

• Producing should be a creative responsibility.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Responsibility
  • Creative

• 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
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Perfect
  • Tired
  • Mood

• 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
  • Care
  • Race
  • Hollywood

• 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
  • Important
  • Culture

• 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
  • People

• I plan to open Mexico's energy sector to national and foreign private investment.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • Energy

• I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Why
  • English

• When my mother tells me to do something, I'll do my own thing. A strong character can be good, but sometimes it is not good. I hope it's good in my case.

  

  Adelina Sotnikova
  • Good
  • Character
  • Mother

• For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Birthday

• But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking this country. And what we heard last night was absolutely the ignoring of that fact. It was: We're going to continue with this agenda. In fact, we're going to double down on healthcare.

  

  Eric Cantor
  • People
  • Country
  • Night

• If Jesus came back today, and saw what was going on in his name, he'd never stop throwing up.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • Up
  • Today
  • Stop

• 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
  • High

• The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland.

  

  Edward Burnett Tylor
  • People
  • Habit

• All of a sudden I feel more womanly, I feel like I got a figure. I was always really straight up and down, the skinny one in the middle, like that poster at Elaine's of the Supremes at Lincoln Center - it was done by Joe Eula. To me that's really a reflection of the way I was. I was just like a bean pole. Now I'm getting a few curves and I like it.

  

  Diana Ross
  • Up
  • Done
  • Reflection

• Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

  

  Tim McIlrath Rise Against
  • Change
  • Mean
  • Try

• Writing has never been like therapy for me, but blogging comes a little closer - I can smack-talk freely and frequently, and this is good for me.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
  • Good
  • Writing

• Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a writer writes can excite the imagination and the feelings of the reader, then that reader carries it around forever. Nothing is more vivid than good fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • People
  • Writing
  • Book

• 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
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Worry