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Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

Glen Hansard

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Glen Hansard
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 21
Actor
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Film Score Composer
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Singer-Songwriter
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Dublin city
Busking
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.
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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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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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And I've always loved playing solo.
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Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.
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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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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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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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I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.
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I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.
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