Odell Quotes

#1. Nice flash," he said in an odd, strangely menacing way, like a dare and a put-down all together.

"Some of our forces are more special than others."

Odell tipped his head at the beret on Ian's head. "The beret says it all, right?"

"I would hope so.

Mary Calmes

#2. Never much of a fantasy fan, I knew one thing for certain: Odell Greenry loved Precious every bit as much as Gollum loved his "precious." And while both objects of obsession could be possessed neither could be mastered.

Mandy Broughton

#3. I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.

Laura Mvula

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

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#6. When you quilting up a life, you sometimes got to start with any piece you can get your hands on.

Jonathan Odell

#7. A flapping tongue puts out the light of wisdom."~Polly Shine

Jonathan Odell

#8. 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.

Tom Odell

#9. When you got a question," Polly said before Granada could ask, "first be silent. Look around you. Let creation speak the truth to you." She

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#11. 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.

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#13. There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so ... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Odell Shepard

#14. Granada had never been on the water before and she marveled at how the creek was a living thing with a will of its own, like an untamed horse challenging her to ride upon its back.

Jonathan Odell

#15. No one had ever told her about the ingredients of life, only of biscuits.

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#17. When God wants to punish us, he gives us just ourselves to care for.

Jonathan Odell

#18. 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.

Tom Odell

#19. 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.

Tom Odell

#20. Look up, Granada. Look to your people. We as beautiful and as plentiful as them stars knitted together in heaven. We just forgot. Somebody's got to remember for us all.

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#22. 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.

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#24. You're soul sick is what you are," Polly said. "And you can stomp your little footsie all you want to, but you ain't going to get well until you remember. And you can't remember until you learn to see.

Jonathan Odell

#25. 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.

Tom Odell

#26. Love is never easy,yet we all still search for it like fools.
Fare

Casey Odell

#27. He needed to get out, to end this way of life, but he couldn't. He was trapped.

Casey Odell

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

Tom Odell

#29. When I look up, there are women as far as I can see, standing in the river one behind the other, generations going back to the beginning time, from the very womb of God.

Jonathan Odell

#30. 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.

Tom Odell

#31. 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.

Tom Odell

#32. 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.

Tom Odell

#33. 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.

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#36. Master says the cholera is not a quality disease. The highborn don't come down with such.

Jonathan Odell

#37. Just remember this, girl, the water you hate is the water that's going to drown you.

Jonathan Odell

#38. One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Odell Shepard

#39. If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

Odell Shepard

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

Tom Odell

#41. That place I'm talking about ain't nothing but a bloody slit in this world of His. But everybody wants to rule over it. It ain't for the white man to rule. Ain't for any man to rule.

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#43. No, now the domestic market is full up with other planters' troublesome slaves. Our only salvation is to scientifically breed a stable order of docile Negro. I've come up with three tenets: Isolation. Religion. Family...." Master Ben

Jonathan Odell

#44. Creation is filled with soul-sick folks, colored and white, never knowing where they belong. They tangle everybody else up in their grief.

Jonathan Odell

#45. 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.

Tom Odell

#46. Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?

Jonathan Odell

#47. A girl can't always wait for a knight in shining armor. She'd be dead long before he ever shows up, if at all.

Casey Odell

#48. 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.

Tom Odell

#49. The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

Odell Shepard

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

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#52. It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard

#53. 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.

Tom Odell

#54. 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.

Tom Odell

#55. 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.

Tom Odell

#56. 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.

Tom Odell

#57. You don't have no idea who you are. And if you don't know who you are," Polly continued, "you can't know nothing about where you beee-long.

Jonathan Odell

#58. 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.

Tom Odell

#59. Every man has an ego, no matter how charming he seems to be.
Fare

Casey Odell

#60. Sometiimes when you look at a person all you see is the tangle and you miss the weave

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#62. 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.

Tom Odell

#63. 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.'

Tom Odell

#64. against the smooth surface, where it was met with

Casey Odell

#65. They all watched silently as she walked toward her cabin, but when she got to the doorway she stopped and turned around. She stood for a moment with her chin lifted and her eyes closed. What on earth was she doing? Granada wondered.

Jonathan Odell

#66. For what I give, not what I take,
For battle, not for victory,
My prayer of thanks I make.

Odell Shepard

#67. That's the way it is with God, don't you reckon? He always around somewheres, if you can see His face or not. He's out there watching through the dark. Sometimes that's got to be enough, I suppose. Knowing He sees us even if we can't see Him back." -- Levi Snow

Jonathan Odell

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

Tom Odell

#69. 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.

Tom Odell

#70. 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.

Tom Odell

#71. 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.

Tom Odell

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

Tom Odell

#73. Calming ain't curing, is it, girl?" the woman asked aloud. "Keeping you hushed might keep me out of jail, but sure as the world, calming ain't curing.

Jonathan Odell