Andy Grammer (Andrew Charles Grammer) Quotes

I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.

Andy Grammer

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• The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Difference
  • VIolin
  • Viola

• I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• Robots are good at things that are structured.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Good
  • Things
  • Robots

• Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Serious
  • Doing
  • Potential

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• Few things are more important to our country's future than recruiting and keeping great teachers in our schools.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Great
  • Important
  • Country

• I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Question

• People had an idea of what R&B artists or pop artists usually say, which was like, 'Talk about sex, talk about partying, and be positive; don't be too much of a downer.'

  

  Gallant
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sex

• I've always been happy with my body.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Happy
  • Always
  • Body

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Friends
  • Better
  • Shots

• The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

  

  Ian Smith
  • You
  • Question
  • Risk

• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • Long
  • Face
  • Head

• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Think
  • Me
  • Sometimes

• I'm still blowing alright, and I still enjoy it which is the main thing.

  

  Acker Bilk
  • Enjoy
  • Still
  • Alright

• Let me tell you that I love the United States.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • You
  • Tell
  • Let

• I've loved musicals ever since I saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway.

  

  Mark Indelicato
  • King
  • Lion

• In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

  

  Jerry Fulton Cantrell Jr. Alice in Chains
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • House

• Some may say [journal keeping] is a great deal of trouble. But we should not call anything trouble which brings to pass good. I consider that portion of my life which has been spent in keeping journals and writing history to have been very profitably spent. - "If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.

  

  Wilford Woodruff
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Children

• Studying oneself is not the most comfortable of enterprises. One is caught between the desire to show oneself in the best possible light and the fear of claiming more than one’s due.

  

  Kenneth Arrow
  • Fear
  • Light
  • Desire

• If I'm who I am because I'm who I am and you're who you are because you are who you are, then I'm who I am and you're who you are. If, on the other hand, I'm who I am because you're who you are, and if you're who you are because I'm who I am, then I'm not who I am and you're not who you are.

  

  Yasmina Reza
  • Hand

• I always try to find things worth saying, things that are supposed to be said instead of being contrived. I do a ton of writing.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Writing