Brett Dennen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?
-- Brett Dennen

#Love Is #Needs #Forget
Blessed is this life and I'm going to celebrate being alive!
-- Brett Dennen

#Blessed #Alive #Celebrate
Follow your heart and you won't get lost.
-- Brett Dennen

#Heart #Follow Your Heart #Lost
Pain is a part of life. It's certainly part of my creative process.
-- Brett Dennen

#Pain #Creative #Process
Pain is part of how I get inspiration and part of how I gain wisdom on life. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I don't transform it, I just let it be. I kind of let it move through me, let it consume me and I let it take me over and hurt me, and I let it go away when it's ready to go away and I understand that it's just part of the process.
-- Brett Dennen

#Hurt #Pain #Moving
The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.
-- Brett Dennen

#Ocean #Moving #Water
I want to live the way I choose. It's all about happiness. I'm a happy person. But to find true happiness, peace within yourself and the world, that is something achieved in the moment. No matter the circumstance.
-- Brett Dennen

#World #Want #Matter
The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.
-- Brett Dennen

#Strong #Inspire #Mountain
Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.
-- Brett Dennen

#Blessed #Alive #Celebrate
A sunny, happy day is beautiful, but when it's moody, and storm is coming, there's an energy in the air.
-- Brett Dennen

#Beautiful #Air #Storm
For some reason I can articulate my feelings better in song. I wish it would come out better in regular life too though. The issue is that I struggle with is that I'm worried about what people think, or how they'll react to whatever it is I have to say, and obviously that's not a good thing.
-- Brett Dennen

#Song #Struggle #Feel Better
I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.
-- Brett Dennen

#Thinking #People #Focus
I think anyone who is an artist or writer or owns their own business or whatever can agree that when you come up with something on your own, it's an addictive feeling.
-- Brett Dennen

#Thinking #Artist #Feelings
I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.
-- Brett Dennen

#Artist #Thinking #Cameras
If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
-- Brett Dennen

#Song #Writing #Men
Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.
-- Brett Dennen

#Desire #Growing #Lost
I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.
-- Brett Dennen

#Inspiration #Want #Kind
As an artist I write about the world I want to live in. And as a musician and someone who is in the public eye, I think you have this responsibility to influence people. So I try influence people to live from their heart and make conscious decisions , and I try just inspire people to make positive change. That's purely the reason I do it. I want to see the world get better, you know?
-- Brett Dennen

#Writing #Heart #Eye
Things aren't always as they appear. I've been believing things to be a certain way because I want them to be that way. I build up illusions in my head.
-- Brett Dennen

#Believe #Want #Way
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

#Couple #Thinking #Meditation
I'm a big believer in that old cliché of thinking globally and acting locally.
-- Brett Dennen

#Thinking #Acting #Bigs
I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.
-- Brett Dennen

#Song #Moving #Writing
When you get to say something in a song you're not directing it necessarily at one person. When it's in a song it's easier to get it out. I don't really worry so much about it when I'm writing a song.
-- Brett Dennen

#Song #Writing #Worry
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

#Song #Writing #Thinking
I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
-- Brett Dennen

#Song #Writing #Heart
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

#Kids #House #World

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