Irish - Musician | April 21, 1970 -
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
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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.
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Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
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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.
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My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.
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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.
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There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
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What happens to us all, I think, when we pick up a pen, is that we just become snobs.
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I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
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Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.
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I won't say I've closed the door on acting.
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You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.
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