Tom Odell Quotes

#1. The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bieber, who'd be locked up if he tried the stuff Gaga gets away with. Women are the only rock stars now. Adele is brutally honest. I want to be like her.

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#2. Singing didn't really come naturally to me, I don't think. I had to really work at it. I just kept singing. I never was really worried about it, though, because I was writing songs, and that was the most important thing to me.

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#3. I think I subconsciously put myself in these situations where the girlfriend isn't pleased with me. I'm useless as a boyfriend. That's how I managed to write all these songs.

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#4. The strongest feelings I've had in my life are when love has gone right and when love has gone bad. And I think strong feelings make good songs.

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#5. I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

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#6. What ever your doing right now, whatever your thinking, or worrying about. stop. take a huge breathe in, and just enjoy being alive.

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#7. When I'm in London, it feels like I am that character who is 'Tom Odell.'

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#8. There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something.

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#9. My aspirations aren't to sell millions of records, but to write really good songs.

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#10. The sound is very much always in my head, I have to get the sound out of my head onto the recording.

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#11. When I'm at home, I like to put records on, but because I travel a lot, I listen to a lot of music on my iPhone.

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#12. Songs are about just being totally honest and putting those words to music.

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#13. Throughout my entire life, I constantly tried to fight normality. I hate it. I hate the idea of it. I hate routine. I hate anything that feels remotely regular or right.

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#14. I just never really thought of not being involved, because when I write the songs I take them to a certain place and by that point I kinda know what I want them to sound like.

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#15. I want people to hear the honesty in my singing, and that I'm not hiding behind anything. It's raw. It's not for any arrogance or ego. It's just pure feelings.

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#16. I'm a big Arcade Fire fan. I love the way they make records - 'Funeral' being my favorite.

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#17. I wouldn't mind being the male Adele. She came along, and people were like, 'Damn, we haven't heard anyone this real for years.'

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#18. Everyone in England knows about Burberry, and it kind of represents a standard of being well-dressed ... But the nice thing is, they have a lot of clothes, so I still feel like myself whenever I'm wearing their clothes.

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#19. I really want to come back! I definitely want to come back. Some of my fondest memories are in New Zealand.

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#20. I have always liked clothes and fashion. And really, being a British male, I am automatically the best dressed person in any room - especially in America.

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#21. One month I'll be completely obsessed with Bob Dylan and the next Arcade Fire. I like early Elton John and David Bowie, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. I listen to a lot of American bands. But I like listening to new bands, too.

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#22. Music is shared. It's a shared feeling; that's what music is all about. When you listen to a song with someone else, it becomes more than just a song. It defines relationships.

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#23. I genuinely find the most meaningful thing I do is to make music, but also to absorb some sort of creativity.

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#24. I don't really use Facebook, because I find it a bit intrusive on your personal life.

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#25. I don't really have loads of friends - three or four who are close. The thing that I love the most is playing with my band, and with everything else I feel kind of uncomfortable. I don't think I'm socially awkward. I just prefer being behind a piano.

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#26. I've only ever had one doubt about music. It came when I was 11. I hated playing scales.

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#27. There are a lot of women at my gigs. The first show I headlined was a sea of women, which I can't complain about. I'm pleased these 18-year-old girls like my music.

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#28. I wanna learn to love, but all my tears have been used up, on another love.

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#29. It's like there's the rest of the world, and then there's America. Part of the reason I would really love continue to making music over here because so much of American music has inspired me, whether it's Jeff Buckley, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen.

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#30. I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them.

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#31. The first song I ever wrote was when I was 12, and it had, like, four lines in it. You progress and get better.

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#32. If people stop being interested, it's because you haven't written a good enough album. Music will always be the most powerful thing. It doesn't matter what record labels or journalists say. It's the song.

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#33. I grew up in the suburbs of a small town on the south coast where the only opportunity I ever got to wear anything smart was a funeral, so I had never owned a piece of clothing worth more than £40.

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#34. I think everyone mentions Bob Dylan, but he's someone I just admire so much as a songwriter. I think people write songs, and then there's Bob Dylan songs. He's one step ahead of just everybody else.

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#35. What's nice about Twitter is that you've got that point of contact with your fans that artists have never had before. I think it's good for musicians. Just as long as you don't start tweeting things about your girlfriends or boyfriends - there's got to be a line.

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#36. I tend to write and record things quite quickly. You can tamper with things for years, and it's artistic laziness sometimes.

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#37. I've never really not played the piano. I've played it since I was six or seven and it's something I've always done - I don't think I could ever really play anything else, I would be a bit out of it without a piano.

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#38. I don't think I'll ever be able to grow a beard.

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#39. Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.

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