Brett Dennen Quotes
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I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
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I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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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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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.
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I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.
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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.
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Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
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I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it's an addictive feeling.