Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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You gotta ask 'why' questions. 'Why did you do this?' A 'why' question you can't answer with one word.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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We do not yet have the solutions to these questions, but the awareness that we live in an endangered world is present in more and more life situations.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
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You've got a great chance in college to do all sorts of terrible irresponsible things, and you should totally do them. I mean, make huge mistakes. This is the time in your life if you screw up, it's okay because you can bounce back from it.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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The classic, 'Romeo and Juliet,' for me, is the iconic story of young love.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many poets as well, like John Donne and Emily Dickinson, would be the influences; I specialized in Emily Dickinson at university. Both of those poets have really interesting ways of looking at life and death.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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It's not unusual for a would-be entrepreneur to get turned down half a dozen times before finding a willing investor - yet in most companies, it takes only one 'nyet' to kill a project stone dead.
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No one has ever raised capital because their pitch deck was pretty. A lot of people have raised capital because they were over-prepared, knew where their business was going, and were able to articulate that through a pitch alongside a pitch deck.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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I think that's what's really beautiful about music, that it is little pieces of your heart and soul.
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In the State Department, one never lacks for helpful suggestions.
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We can and must turn this page if we are friends and are prepared to look one another in the eye.
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All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.
