Hozier Quotes

I never saw myself as a singer; I never really thought I had the voice for it.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

I love Celtic music and listening to it, but I just don't have the type of voice to sing it.

I wouldn't even dare to sing like Ed Sheeran.

I can't sing like Aretha Franklin as much as I wish I could. And I don't sing like Etta James and the Judds as much as I wish I could.

I wonder what it would have been like if I could actually sing.

I didn't want to record 'I Think We're Alone Now,' because I thought it wouldn't show that I could actually sing.

Thank God I'm a horrible musician. Good singer, horrible musician.

I would never ever sing at all if I could get away with it. I had pitch problems, no range. So what I did was manipulate the sound... that way you couldn't tell that I wasn't very good.

If I could sing and play like Lightnin' Hopkins, I would.

I sang all the time, and finally, my mother looked at me and said: 'I have a friend in New York who gives singing lessons. If she says you can sing, you can take lessons. If you can't sing, I never want you to open your mouth again as long as you live.'

I wish I sang better.

I'm a terrible singer, but I'm not shy about it. I'm shy about dancing.

I never was a very good singer.

I wish I could sing. I don't technically have a terrible voice, but it's certainly not as good as most of my friends. Whenever I hear myself on a record, it just reminds me I'm not a very good singer.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

I've played the clarinet since I was a kid. I love to sing, but I'm not much of a singer. Let's say that when it comes to vocalizing, I have the soul of Billy Bigelow but the voice of Jigger Cragan.

There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.

I've auditioned for musicals a lot, but I think my voice didn't really match what they were looking for. I went to school for musical theater for a year and dropped out. Legit musicals are not quite my forte.

I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

I've always felt myself as being a serious singer.

My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.

I'm not the best singer - like, I know I'm not Celine Dion.