Andy Grammer Quotes

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Andy Grammer

Profession : Musician

Birth : December 3, 1983

My third album, that will definitely be about this little girl and the process of watching your wife get pregnant. It's crazy.

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I wrote my first single, 'Keep Your Head Up,' and that's what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

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Even a song like 'Give Love,' in my head, there's a question as I'm writing it, going, 'Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say 'give love?''

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Everyone deals with temptation. It's just there.

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As a musician, you just want to be able to do what you love.

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Any time you make the transfer of 'I've created something, and I'm giving it to you, and I hope it makes you happy,' that's good.

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I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

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When you're spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it's Dave. They become people to you. I think we're really good in this country about saying that they're homeless and, therefore, they don't exist.

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One of my passions in life is to try to inspire people. I don't know if that sounds cheesy, but I genuinely love to do that.

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It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

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It sucked to make my own CDs. I'm bad at that. It sucks to figure out how to power my amp. I don't know that stuff.

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You know when you hear a lyric and you can tell that the person means it? That is really hard; that is so much harder than it seems: to find the topics that you're passionate about and have it come across as like, 'Yeah, that guy needed to sing that song.'

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Anytime I hear songs that are so honest, whether they make the person who's singing it look good or not, there's a level of honesty that resonates with people.

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I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, 'All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it's a keeper.' But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

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I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.

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Hunger is an issue that I've cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

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I'm a humble guy, but I'm audacious.

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I'm a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It's really fun, man!

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Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.

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I am so blessed and lucky.

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