Author: Glen Hansard

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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.

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

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

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

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

- 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 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

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

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

- 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

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