Hozier Quotes

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Hozier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1990

I found the experience of falling in love or being in love was a death: a death of everything. You kind of watch yourself die in a wonderful way, and you experience for the briefest moment - if you see yourself for a moment through their eyes - everything you believed about yourself gone. In a death-and-rebirth sense.

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I would love to get in trouble with the Catholic Church. I'm not religious myself, but my issue is with the organization. It's an organization of men - it's not about faith.

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Religion wasn't imposed on me. I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

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I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.

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You grow up and recognize that in any educated secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognize in yourself, and challenge yourself, that if you see racism or homophobia or misogyny in a secular society, as a member of that society, you should challenge it. You owe it to the betterment of society.

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I think marriage is a scary concept. It's a scary concept for anybody. I'm not sure where I sit with that.

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Either somebody has equal rights, or they don't. And certainly in the Irish constitution, marriage is genderless. There's no mention of a man and a woman.

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All songs, all pieces of art, reflect the world that they were made in and the values of those artists and the hopes and aspirations of the people who listen to that music and who made that music.

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I am a politically motivated person, and that will come through in the music. I'm not sure if every song will be 'Take Me to Church,' but I can only hope that people enjoy the body of work that I have ahead of me.

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My dad was a blues musician around Dublin when I was a baby, so the only music I would listen to growing up was John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. It's music that feels like home to me.

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Governments do not care about your Facebook-assembled opinion. Incompetent politicians don't read your tweets; there are reasons for them being out of touch. Change does not come about for 'likes' on a page, though the ideas for it may start there.

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We all run the risk of thinking that people have common sense sometimes.

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Social media is an advertisement for the superficial extroverted self.

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I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.

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I like playing with light and shade. I like saying awful things in very pretty ways.

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I don't know if I'll ever get married. I have no plans to not get married.

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It sounds like I'm joking when I say it, but when I wrote 'Take Me To Church' and a lot of these things, I didn't think they would be hits. I thought I was writing for a potentially smaller audience.

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I try to be happy. I try to face things without regret or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.

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The best vocalists I can think of are female. There is no singer I can think of who can touch Ella Fitzgerald. And when Billie Holiday sings, she's merciless about it. Her voice has just this immaculate sadness - even in happy songs, there was something that was so broken about it.

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I think it is important to differentiate between lip service towards something and actually making change.

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