Glen Hansard Quotes

I've come to appreciate how special a song is compared to other art forms, because you can carry it around in your head and your heart, and it remains part of you. It just comes as natural as a bird to me, always did. It's the way singer-songwriters make sense of our lives.

Songs don't wear out. Good songs are good now. If they were a comfort during those hard times in the past, they'll be a comfort in today's age.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

I never finish a show without singing 'She's Gone.'

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Music is as integral to me as my own DNA. My life has become a continual soundtrack, with music underscoring the most powerful and even the most banal moments of my life.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

The only song I can sing is 'Lady in Red' so that must tell you how great it must have been.

Music is so much fun because each song is like a film in itself. You get to go from beginning to end and interact and exchange energy with a live audience.

We like songs that are familiar.

A good song gathers the years in. It's why you can sing it with such conviction 40 years after it's been written.

Music is the only thing that I trust.

My favorite song to perform is 'Love of my Life.'

We all know what it means to be sung to. And poetry is very close to that.

A few things I've noticed about myself as a listener, and the music that I relate to and the music that's continued to mean something to me since I was a little kid or a teenager, is that they're songs that tell stories and songs that come from a place of experience.

I remember sitting at home in West Texas listening to my 'Songs for a New World' CD over and over.

My earliest memories have to do with music.

For me, growing-up music was always about telling stories.

Bobby McGee' was the song that made the difference for me. Every time I sing it, I still think of Janis.

You're like the lyrics to my favorite song. You stick with me all day long. And when I reach the end I wanna hear it again.

You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

You can say things a million times, but if you can't sing it, then it really isn't much of a song.

I loved music from earliest childhood - from as long as I can remember.