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And I've always loved playing solo.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Solo
Loved Playing
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I won't say I've closed the door on acting.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Acting
Doors
Closed
Door
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I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
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Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Conflicts
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I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Adore
Alchemy
Ideas
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I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Able
Blessed
Way
Music Feel Way
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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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Happens
Snob
Thinking
Pen
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Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Travel
Breakdown
Long
Long Time
Nervous
Nervous Breakdown
Sometimes
Time Long Sometimes
Continuous
Intensely
Travelling
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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 / Songwriter
Creativity
Good Times
Guitar
Miserable
Time Good Guitar
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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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Dad
Angry
Quiet
Want
Express
Shut
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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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People
Song
Writing
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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.
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Air
Cynical
Music Is
Poisoning
Just Be
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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 / Songwriter
Facts
Important
Relaxation
Equally
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Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Busking
Singing
Songwriting
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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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Decision
Funny Things
Intellectual
Funny Thing
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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 / Songwriter
Music
Rest Of Your Life
Song
Ride
Right Kind
Saddle
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Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Imagination
Allies
Powerful
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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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Another Day
Mark
Office
Ships
Ship
Successes
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I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.
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Actors
Eye
Singers
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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.
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Best Way
Estimation
Hands
Song
Writing
Pen
Tighten
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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.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Believe
Deeper
Lessons
People
Wiser
Good Believe People
Lesson
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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.
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Guitar
Might
Play
Satisfied
Edit
Pen
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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 / Songwriter
Imagination
Space
Brain
Distance
Needs
Rise
Gets
Moment
Somehow
Stare
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The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Morning
Appointments
Coffee
Muse
Writing
Holds
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I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.
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Able
Blessed
Way
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Relationships can be about yourself, they can be about you and your god, you and your people, you and your family. It can be about a lot of different stuff. And it is.
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Different
People
Stuff
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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.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Artistic
Classic
Cooking
Existence
Mates
Tables
Vegetables
Life Home Mother
Bar
Local
Planting
Super
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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 / Songwriter
Approval
Weird
Life Good Great
Feeling Good
Musicians
Somehow
Therefore
Valid
Weird Thing
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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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Dublin
Love Me Difficult
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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 / Songwriter
Birth
Grateful
Gratitude
Grows
Humbling
Team
Life Sometimes Feel
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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 / Songwriter
Technology
Distraction
Drifting
Filled
Locked
Modern Technology
Our Lives
People
Smartphones
Rest
Present
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I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.
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Character
Forever
Soul
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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 / Songwriter
Abstract
Creative
Editing
Ideas
Leaving
Love Yourself Your
Original
Love Yourself Way
Critic
Edit
Pen
Pick
Worse
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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 / Songwriter
Art
Jobs
Arrested
Law
Little Money
Money Law People
Considered
Risky
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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 / Songwriter
Needs
One Thing
Play
Self
Self Consciousness
Shed
Song
Work Money Your
Does
Down
Earn
Working
Well
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I think inside every rock journalist, there's somebody who wishes they had the courage to live the life that they're not, and that they're writing about. But at the same time, inside every songwriter, I guess there's a wish for happiness.
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Live Life
Thinking
Writing
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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.
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Might
Mood
Motown
Reason
Reflecting
Sad Music Myself
Joni Mitchell
Mitchell
Opposed
Sticking
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I think it's very interesting, people who can't stand people who whinge and whine. It seems almost like a class issue. Because you think about who is the most positive, who's the most redemptive songwriter that's ever existed in your lifetime?
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Class
Issues
Thinking
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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 / Songwriter
Chicago
Cities
Junction
Long
Years
Clark
Corner
Pass
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There's this unspoken thing that you have to wear a tux and some kind of nice dress. There are all these ethical rules, but I'm sure if you came to the Oscars in ripped jeans and a t-shirt they wouldn't throw you out. You would just look like a fool.
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Dresses
Jeans
Nice
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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 / Songwriter
Artist
Default
Loud
Quiet
Sadness
Setting
Thinking
Interesting Idea
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You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people Id meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Journey
Kids
People
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You know, when I was a kid waiting on the bus, I remember that was when I imagined my life. I imagined everything that I was gonna be when I grew up and I imagined all of these amazing journeys and amazing people I'd meet. Of course, all of it has kind of come to fruition.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Amazing
Amazing People
Fruition
Waiting
Course
Journeys
Meet
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I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.
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Wall
Wearing Black
Writing
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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. Like it's a collection of your diary entries and you pick which one's gonna make the most sense together and you put out a record and you sort of live it.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Decision
Funny Things
Intellectual
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We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.
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Girl
Cynical
Joy
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Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. 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. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.
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Finding Yourself
Moving
Song
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I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.
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Art
Selfish
Thinking
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Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.
Glen Hansard / Songwriter
Cities
Past
Reading
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