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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen
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Brett Dennen
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: October 28
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Oakdale
California
Brett Michael Dennen
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Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.
Brett Dennen
Songs don't really feel like me unless I somehow shed a little secret or open myself somehow or be vulnerable. When I'm singing these songs, it feels like me, and that comes with the vulnerabilities and the strengths and the moments of triumph or whatever.
Brett Dennen
Bringing up issues that are hard to deal with is a challenge for me, and I think that's what draws me to song writing.
Brett Dennen
It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.
Brett Dennen
Nature inspires me because it's so peaceful. It makes me have an inward experience. It makes me reflective and nostalgic.
Brett Dennen
Follow your heart and you won't get lost.
Brett Dennen
I can write songs, but I'm not gonna really feel good about the song unless it feels like me, and I'm not gonna release a song or put it on an album or play it in concert unless it really feels like me.
Brett Dennen
What I strive to do with songwriting is be really honest, authentic and try to be open and share that with people. I choose that over trying to be clever, poetic, or lyrical.
Brett Dennen
I have ideas for songs all the time, but musical ideas, like melodies, really come out when I'm in nature.
Brett Dennen
I think there's a certain magic that comes from being creative.
Brett Dennen
I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.
Brett Dennen
I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
Brett Dennen
When you're young that's when you feel like you can change the world. Then you get older and you buy a house and have kids, and you don't want to be so bold anymore.
Brett Dennen
The people at festivals are much more open to dance and just sing along. They come right up to the stage and they're very thankful. That's one thing I really appreciate about the yoga culture, that the people are very thankful. They come up to you as much as any fan would, but they express sincere gratitude and I appreciate that.
Brett Dennen
I guess it's just my job to somehow balance knowing that every song is going to come differently and be different, but also know that, on the other hand, I am a songwriter and I am a craftsman, and I do have a craft and a technique and a method. So I need to balance the technique and the method.
Brett Dennen
It's cool to be healthy now! It's cool to, like, drink fresh juices and drink Kombucha and all that stuff.
Brett Dennen
Being a songwriter or a painter you're definitely facing your fears. You're facing your fears because you're speaking your truth you're speaking from your heart. That's something that's not easy to do, you set yourself up for all sorts of criticism or vulnerability but that's why we do it.
Brett Dennen
I like fish and a lot of seaweed, but I don't eat bread or dairy or anything like that. It's kind of like in the macrobiotic world. I'm just a healthy eater who loves to juice.
Brett Dennen
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only way I know how to efficiently, effectively meditate is by walking in nature.
Brett Dennen
I always liked playing music and I always wanted to be good at playing guitar. I always saw myself as an old man living in the mountains playing a guitar, but I didn't really turn that into a desire to be a professional musician or a singer or a rock star or anything like that.
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