Hurts Quotes

United Kingdom,
2009

Hurts are an English synth-pop duo formed in Manchester in 2009, consisting of singer Theo Hutchcraft and multi-instrumentalist Adam Anderson. Their first two albums, Happiness and Exile, both reached the top 10 in several countries.

The derision comes from snobbery, which I think is the worst thing for art and music. I don't think there's any place for it and it comes from insecurity.

Theo Hutchcraft Hurts
- Art
- Thing
- Snobbery
Music in general is very interpretative, isn’t it? It’s amazing how many songs in history have been misinterpreted but in an amazing way that means something to someone and that’s the beauty of music really, it’s what you make of it. And I think our songs are the same really, they’re no different, and if people pick out lines that mean something in their lives…it’s all we wanted to do: to mean something to people.

Adam Anderson Hurts
- Music
- History
- Songs

Classical music is a genre of music. It's no more complex or less complex than pop music or R&B. The elitism is weird.

Theo Hutchcraft Hurts
Shades of Grey. I haven't read it yet, but what you have to read carefully, is “Story of O” by the French writer Dominique Aury. This is actually the forerunner of all the whole SM novels and it's really good. You have to read it.

Theo Hutchcraft Hurts
- Story of O
I studied engineering and acoustics. I would eventually become a boring nerd, if I had not met Adam.

Theo Hutchcraft Hurts
- Engineering
- Acoustics