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Glen Hansard Biography

Glen Hansard (born 21 April 1970) is an Irish songwriter, actor, vocalist and guitarist for Irish group The Frames, and one half of folk rock duo The Swell Season. He is also known for his acting, having appeared in the BAFTA-winning film The Commitments, as well as starring in the film Once, which earned him a number of major awards, including an Academy Award for Best Song.

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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?

Class, Issues, Redemptive, Thinking, Whinge

If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in Chicago. If you stand on the corner of Belmont and Clark, and you do that for three years, you'll pretty much have seen everybody in Chicago pass that junction.

Cities, Long, Pass, Three, Years

I love the idea of leaving some of the original abstract thought in, because the problem is that when you pick up a pen you become a snob, your own worse critic. You edit yourself in a way that is non-creative.

Creative, Editing, Ideas, Original, Thought, Worse

I've always loved playing solo. I guess in a way I just feel blessed to be able to make music. My favorite thing is usually whatever I'm doing right there and then.

Able, Blessed, Favorite, Thing, Way

Sadness is a very interesting idea, this idea of sadness being some kind of default setting that artists will go into. And then I started thinking about this idea of sadness and happiness, and the idea that sadness is very loud, and happiness is quiet.

Artist, Loud, Sadness, Setting, Thinking

I think ultimately, people are selfish in that department [blues], in a good way - the reason we're attracted to art is because it somehow reflects us. And I think, ultimately, we're a tribal people by nature. We're not individualistic. We almost like to hear that there's other people in a worse state than us. Sometimes even more than we like hearing there are people in better states than us.

Art, Good, Selfish, Thinking, Tribal

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.

Another Day, Day, Office, Poetry, Ships

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

Albums, Decision, Funny Things, Intellectual, Musings

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.

Gonna, Journey, Kids, Kind, Know, People

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.

Might, Mitchell, Mood, Motown, Reason

Certain songs have a life, and certain songs don't. A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life. And then other songs are only really important for certain periods of your life, and you move on from them and find yourself not necessarily needing to sing them anymore.

Finding Yourself, Move, Moving, Needing, Right, Song

In Irish law, busking is considered vagrancy - you can be arrested for it. It's risky asking people for money in public. So it's not like it's a high-art job. And people who do it as a high-art job make very little money.

Art, Busking, Job, Jobs, Law, Like

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

Conflict, Conflicts, Create

My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

Angry, Dad, Down, Quiet, Want

I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

Guitar, Might, Pick, Play, Satisfied

Everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking. Busking, you learn people, you learn about reading people. You learn about reading the atmosphere of the street. If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. It's almost like you get to know personality types, just by watching people walk past. You get a sense for things.

Cities, City, Past, Reading, Stand, Walk

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

Air, Cynical, Music, Music Is, Poisoning, Stop

The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

Coffee, Morning, People, Write, Writing

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Kind, Music, Rest Of Your Life, Right, Sing, Song

I just didn't realize, being a young person, that if you sign up to make a film, a certain portion of your soul is forever gone. From there on, you are that character to everybody you'll ever meet again.

Character, Forever, Gone, Portion, Soul

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