Hozier Quotes

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Hozier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1990

I love Muddy Waters and Nina Simone. I also watched 'The Blues Brothers' movie over and over.

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If you can say something beautiful in a very terrible way - I was always drawn to that.

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There's not a lot of room for thinking in popular culture; there's not a lot of room for being conflicted.

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I had just discovered jazz, and I started singing in a kind of blues cover band at the age of 15. We called ourselves - it was a terrible name - the Blue Zoots. We couldn't actually get our hands on zoot suits, nor did we dress in blue. We did covers of Screamin' Jay Hawkins and kind of Blues Brothers repertoire stuff.

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Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for somebody is, oftentimes, informed by the terrible things you might believe about yourself, and comparatively, the person you see them as is everything that you're not.

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By nature, I'm an awkward person; I'm a gangly introvert.

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I think my parents took me to see Sting when I was very, very young.

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When I first started to sing, I just swung at it with an axe.

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If I could, I'd sing old French songs or American folk music, but I sure as hell can't do it as well as Mississippi John Hurt - no way in hell am I getting near that!

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I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

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I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, who captured a lot of that very beautifully.

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You grow up and recognise that in an educated, secular society, there's no excuse for ignorance. You have to recognise 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'm reading a lot of poetry because it's a lot easier to dip in and dip out when you've got 10 minutes to yourself.

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I'm quite sure I don't want legions of 15-year-old girls who call themselves, like, Broziers or something. My career isn't going to be that kind of a thing.

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I just hate getting my hair cut.

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Much of social media can be seen as the 'News of me.' It's not so much a platform for connecting and sharing as it is a platform for advertising the idea of yourself you want to portray to others: the image of yourself you want to project.

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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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One of my favorite books is 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' by George Orwell, and 'Catcher in the Rye,' obviously, is a big influence and is one of my favorites.

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Anyone close to me will be familiar with my frustrations with certain aspects of social media: the behaviour it encourages and attitudes towards the self it can breed.

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