Andrew Hozier-Byrne (Hozier) Quotes

I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15.

Andrew Hozier-Byrne

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
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• From the ashes of a financial crash, there is a chance to create a new economic settlement that is more equal, sustainable and democratic.

  

  Frances O'Grady
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• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• Obviously, I never want to make the same record twice. I want to keep moving forward. That's the real challenge, I think.

  

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• One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

  

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• A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

  

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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
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• I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
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• The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.

  

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  • American
  • Spirit
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• Putin is going to do what Putin is going to do.

  

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• We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

  

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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  

  Edmund Burke
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• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

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• The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.

  

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• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

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• I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'

  

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• Mom's dad was in the army, stormed the beach at Normandy, fought through the French hedgerows, the Battle of the Ardennes, the Battle of the Bulge, and liberated concentration camps at the end of the war.

  

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  • War
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• If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

  

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• The plain fact is that there are no conclusions.

  

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• I'm obviously an American citizen. My parents are American citizens. But I'm not looked at as an American.

  

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  • American
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• I had a fascination with the roots of African American music. That would have been my first education in music. I had a real passion for it. I wanted to play it, sing it. I could sing at a young age, but I started to teach myself bass guitar and started writing when I was 15.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Real