Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

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• Long hair, for me, is actually less maintenance. I went through a phase when I was kid where I wanted a pixie cut. At the time I thought it looked awesome, but I look back and I looked like such a dork! When I have short hair, I feel like I have to blow dry it, or it doesn't sit properly.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Hair

• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • You
  • Wish
  • Forget

• Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Nature
  • Growing
  • Survival

• In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.

  

  Barbara Lynn
  • Good
  • Music
  • Home

• I'm at the mercy of whatever character comes into my head.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Character
  • Mercy
  • Head

• I know we can't always know what medical surprises may happen during childbirth. But my hope is to go fully natural - no epidural, no interventions. Wish me luck.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • May
  • Hope
  • Wish

• Actually, I have another record I made with them in 1976, but I've had such a bad experience with record companies, because I keep my head so much in music and not in business.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Business
  • Experience

• To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Want
  • You
  • Me

• Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Life
  • Live
  • Spiritual

• The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Best
  • Sleep
  • Insomnia

• A chief of station is the head of all intelligence operations in any given country.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Intelligence
  • Head

• I'm in a business where no one cares about anything except how well your last collection sold.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Business
  • Where
  • Last

• If you can provide the funding and you get the leadership, you'll have a competitive team.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • You
  • Team
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• Networks, especially, micro-manage everything to death.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Death
  • Everything
  • Networks

• Everything about the music industry takes away from you as an artist. They're always wondering what the next thing is: 'What do you have?' It's a very introverted process.

  

  Gary Allan
  • Music
  • Artist
  • Process

• I've gravitated towards independent cinema because you have to work harder in studio scripts to flesh out characters, particularly female ones. They are not as sharply edged, they tend to be quite watery. They are not renderings of women as I know them.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Work
  • Women
  • Independent

• A man is first reverent about himself, and self-respect is the first stage in reverence for all things.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Respect

• Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • Games
  • News
  • Chess

• I can say with total conviction that it was the Holy Spirit that chose, guided the election of Pope Francis.

  

  Donald Wuerl

• The strategic plan to transform Valeant smartly focuses on rebuilding the company's core franchises in ophthalmology, dermatology, and gastroenterology while simultaneously using the proceeds from the sale of non-core assets and operating cash flow to de-lever the company.

  

  John Paulson

• On a more practical level, anyone out there who wants to be a writer should clearly recognize that this is a brutal business, where even incredibly talented people sometimes never make a living. If you want to chase such a dream, please have a Plan B in place.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Business
  • Dream

• I will never turn down a good plate of hummus or falafel or shawarma. I just never will. You know, what I really loved in Israel was that at the time, at least, I could buy so many fruits and vegetables there for very inexpensive prices.

  

  Evan McMullin
  • Loved
  • Vegetables
  • Prices

• When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne