Andrew Hozier-Byrne Quotes
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I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'
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I'm influenced a lot by Nina Simone, Stevie Wonder, even Paul Weller - Billie Holiday as well: People who wrote and sang songs that were reflective of their times. I quite like that. I quite admire that.
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To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to create the amount of joy that I felt about music to anyone else. To me, that's a job well done.
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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.
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As I listened more and more to the music that moved me, I gained more fascination with America.
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Blues is a very physical music.
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The myth of fame and the myth of success is cultivated because it is monetisable and it is profitable.
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No Facebook status is as worrying as a vote and no tweet is as noticeable as an angry cry from a crowd outside a government building.
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I'd love to do something with somebody like James Blake.
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Regardless of the sexual orientation behind a relationship, it is still a relationship and still love.
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By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.
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When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.