If you stand still in any city long enough, you see everyone pass you by. So you're in … - Glen Hansard

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I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that. Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me

Glen Hansard

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.

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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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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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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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