Glen Hansard
speaker
316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Glen Hansard’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And he basically said to me one day, he called me down to the office and he says, Glenn, you know what?
You're in this school, you're not learning a thing, you're frustrating all of the teachers and I know you love music.
So I have an idea.
Why don't you go, take your guitar, go over to Grafton Street or go to any street you want, but start your musical career at the very bottom today.
He said, you know, go and go and, you know, take your guitar out.
And if in a year you're not enjoying it or it's not working out for you, come back to school and I'll figure out a way of getting you back into class and you can continue your education.
He said, but I don't think that your education is going anywhere.
He says, you know, he says, you can tell me all the musicians who played on John Wesley Harding or you can...
You know, you can tell me who produced the first two Leonard Cohen records, but you can't tell me the square root of nine.
And he says, so, you know, you're not really very good to us here.
And I'd like to see you succeed.
So he said he sent me home that day to take my guitar and go to the grafting.
And when I went home, I said to my mother, I dropped my school bag in the hall and I said to my mother, now I'm going to I'm going to start my career as a musician.
And my mother was like, what, really?
And I was like, yeah, she says, well, we'll go for it, son.
And good luck.
Well, I've not been on a starlet
No, I've not been straight at all.
Well, I beg your pardon.
The night we jumped McCormack's Wall.
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