Denison Witmer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Hearing your voice and your instrument kind of breathe in the room, it affects the way you perform the songs. For instance, if you have that reverb, you can give the songs a little more space. You can play them a little slower or you can play less of the guitar part and just let it open up, which I really love. It's so nice to play a listening room, because the audience feels a certain way too.
-- Denison Witmer

#Song #Nice #Guitar
I like when people don't feel the need to have everything add up perfectly. I don't think we need that, what I think we need is to let ourselves have room to move and understand that life is a journey. And with that comes freedom. I think the more you try to compartmentalize and snap it all into place you may rob yourself of an experience that's really important for you.
-- Denison Witmer

#Moving #Journey #Thinking
I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.
-- Denison Witmer

#Catholic #Pennsylvania #Grew Up
There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.
-- Denison Witmer

#Zero #People #Expectations
I think I'm attracted to the mystics, to seeing needs in the world. I'm attracted to caring for people who are disenfranchised. I'm attracted to getting rid of worldly possessions.
-- Denison Witmer

#Caring #Thinking #People
I'm a true believer in not forcing anything. I hate forced art, forced anything.
-- Denison Witmer

#Art #Hate #Believer
You don't always get lucky enough to have songs that can breathe and shift meaning. But every once in a while you open up a window and something passes through. It's really nice for me when I discover those songs in my catalogue. It's one of the reasons I try not to get too specific about what my songs mean.
-- Denison Witmer

#Song #Nice #Mean
Sometimes people will request a song I haven't played in a while and I'll play it and singing the lyrics will mean something different to me as a 35 year-old person than they did when I was 25. I know I'm still that person who wrote it and thought I knew what I meant when I was writing them. They meant something very exact to me in that time of my life. But it's really cool when those same lyrics can transform into something else and mean something entirely different to me.
-- Denison Witmer

#Song #Writing #Mean
Art that I like the most is born out of free association. I try to let my mind open up and see what comes out.
-- Denison Witmer

#Art #Mind #Trying
I kind of talk about songwriting in the sense that it's really not my job to try to state hard truths. I'm not out to say this is what truth is, this is what's false, this is reality, this is not reality. What I prefer is to try to create a space where truth can move.
-- Denison Witmer

#Jobs #Moving #Reality
Whether or not you're writing fiction or you're making sculptures. You're trying to create a space. You're trying to make something where your own epiphanies and your own desires and your own understanding of the world can reveal itself.
-- Denison Witmer

#Writing #Space #Understanding
Instruments of a trade are really fascinating to me. Things that enable you to do your job better. Rehabbing houses is really fun to me. I love taking a space and seeing the potential, gutting it, and putting it back together and I love the tools used to do that.
-- Denison Witmer

#Jobs #Fun #Space

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