Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes
It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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The really courageous and bold thing is to make movies about human behaviour.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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Whenever I read a script, I start recasting the role that I might play. I'm like, 'God, this should be played by Domhnall Gleeson, not me.'
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I'm really an honorary Jew, you know; all the best people are. I really do feel Jewish, even though I'm a Catholic. The way the Church has been behaving, I'm happy to be Jewish.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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It's like having astronomy without knowing where the stars are.
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The funny thing about the people I don't like - they're very self-centered.
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Songs do write themselves through you; I know people find it hard to believe, but it's true.
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I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
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I feel very English. I'm proud of it. I wanted there to be a thread connecting everything, the songs, clothes, artwork, even the string arrangements. It all creates a certain atmosphere.
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I wrote 'All is Lost' while editing 'Margin Call'. I did that long before I knew if I was ever going to get to make another movie.
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It's kind of strange to hear your songs sung back to you! You get a big insight into what people connect to, what's moving to people or what songs people are really into.
