Hozier Quotes

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Hozier

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 17, 1990

I think it all started with Nina Simone. When I was maybe seven or eight, I used to listen to one of her albums every night before I went to sleep. For me, her voice was everything.

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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 always thought of myself as a very, very obscure artist.

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I never wrote music for the mainstream.

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Blues is a very physical music.

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I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to anyone else.

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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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I'm always eager to make new music.

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The way I did the first album... the way I wrote 'Church'... was just to trust my instincts with the music and let it kind of do what it does.

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I didn't even have that many close LGBT friends or anything like that, but I suppose it was growing up and becoming aware of how you are in a cultural landscape that is blatantly homophobic... you turn around and say, 'Why did I grow up in a homophobic place? Why did I grow up in a misogynistic place?'

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There was a moment, a few weeks after I signed, that it actually hit me. I was signed to a major label.

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It was a rural upbringing by the seaside. A real quiet place surrounded by fields. I had to travel into town for school and stuff like that.

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The main thing is, I can't stay up late partying when I'm on tour. That's not good for my voice or my health in general.

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I'm quite tame as touring musicians go.

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It's a surreal experience filming promotion with Ryan Seacrest and meeting Top 40 pop artists.

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By the time I was in my teens, I was listening to Delta blues and jazz.

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I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties.

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I spent quite a bit of time in choirs, growing up, and in the world-touring music group Anuna.

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Rarely do I finish a song lyrically before I have a musical idea there, but then again, rarely ever would I finish a song musically before starting the lyrical ideas. So a lot of the time, they come in tandem, or they just come at a glance.

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I find lyrics can come at any time during the day, as can music.

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