We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many … - Glen Hansard

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The Somebody Else's Problem field is much simpler and more effective, and what's more can be run for over a hundred years on a single torch battery. This is because it relies on people's natural disposition not to see anything they don't want to, weren't expecting, or can't explain.

Glen Hansard

We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes.

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As a busker, one thing that does not work is self-consciousness. A busker needs to be working. A busker needs to shed all ego and get down to work. Play your songs, play them well, earn your money, and don't get in people's way.

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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.

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Our imagination it is our greatest ally. . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

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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.

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I grew up wearing black arm-bands when the hunger strikers died. I went on those marches. I grew up basically a Provo, though I never obviously got into any activities. I was writing 'IRA, Brits out' on walls all over where I grew up, but that was a false sense of Irishness.

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