Glen Hansard Quotes

I'm so grateful to be able to do music.

I'm blessed, because I enjoy every part of my life. I enjoy writing songs. I've been trying to write songs since I was five years old.

I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music.

I feel super, super grateful that I get to make music.

Ultimately it's a blessing to be able to make music.

I feel like I've had a really great time just being able to make all the music that I've always liked to make and listen to and expressing it in different ways.

I think there’s no greater joy than completing a song out of thin air. It’s like inventing something, but it’s invisible, you know? It’s weird. It amazes me. You can send it out in the world, and that’s the joy. It’s like giving birth to all these songs and letting them go like they’re your kids.

I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.

Nothing makes me happier than writing a song that I think is good or that I want to play. Writing songs helps me.

My great joy is to give form to reality. Music is a great release, a great enjoyment to me. Eventually I'd like to write something of great importance. That's my ambition - to write something worthwhile.

I only want my work to make people happy.

It's just always been a hobby of ours to make music that makes us happy and excites us when we make it.

A lot of people put all that stuff on a pedestal, and they won't touch it. But I don't think that's the reason they did that. I think they played that stuff out of pure joy.

And there's a feeling you get from making music that is unlike anything else in the world.

For me, music making is the most joyful activity possible, the most perfect expression of any emotion.

I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.

I love music so much. I've got something going all the time. I've gotta be singing. I've gotta be creating music, or I'm not happy.

I think my favorite experience is whatever I'm doing now.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, 'Boy, those were great old days.' Well, you know, we're living in the good old days.

I make music because I like making music.

I don't live for the accolades. I'm more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

I write for myself - but it is nice when other people like it, too!

I cannot tell you how lucky I am: the songs that I sing, I like!

I just want to make the best music I can make.

I love the fact that people love my work, and they love me as who I am. I think I am pretty blessed, and I am glad I am in this position, and I am really happy about that.