Author: Glen Hansard

Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

This weird thing that musicians have... it's got something to do with approval, and not feeling good enough, and therefore going out and being great somehow makes your life valid.

- Glen Hansard

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

- Glen Hansard

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