Glen Hansard Quotes

As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.
Glen Hansard

Work, Money, Ego

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.
Glen Hansard

Brain, Moment, Space

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.
Glen Hansard

Life, Song, While

And for some reason, when I'm sad, I do listen to Leonard Cohen, I do listen to Joni Mitchell. I do find myself going to the music that's actually reflecting my mood, as opposed to sticking on Motown, which might actually bring my mood up.
Glen Hansard

Music, Sad, Find

And I've always loved playing solo.
Glen Hansard

Loved, Playing, Solo

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
Glen Hansard

Sure, Create, Conflicts

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
Glen Hansard

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.
Glen Hansard

Good, Everything, Place

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
Glen Hansard

Music, Blessed, Able

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.
Glen Hansard

Love, Yourself, Thought

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.
Glen Hansard

Time, Good, Guitar

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.
Glen Hansard

Play, Guitar, Until

I won't say I've closed the door on acting.
Glen Hansard

Acting, Door, Won

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.
Glen Hansard

Music, Making, Stop

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
Glen Hansard

Work, Important, Fact

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.
Glen Hansard

Poetry, Another, Office

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.
Glen Hansard

Long, Enough, Pretty

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.
Glen Hansard

Money, Job, Law

Keeping the pen out of your hand as much as possible is the best way to write a song, in my estimation. But the pen must come in to tighten it up.
Glen Hansard

Best, Write, Song

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
Glen Hansard

Dad, Angry, Everything

My life at home is super simple. My local bar with my mates, cooking for my mother, making tables, planting vegetables: It's the classic idea of the artistic existence.
Glen Hansard

Life, Home, Mother

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.
Glen Hansard

Happiness, Sadness, Thinking

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
Glen Hansard

Time, Long, Sometimes

Sometimes you give birth to something or you're part of a team that gives birth to an idea, and it grows and has a whole life of its own, and you feel grateful. It's just so humbling.
Glen Hansard

Life, Give, Sometimes

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.
Glen Hansard

Technology, Thought, Moment

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Born: April 21, 1970

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