Top 60 Andy Grammer Quotes

Life is hard, you know. If I can give someone on the radio three minutes to make them feel happier, that’s a cool thing.

I thought I wanted to be a clown, because what would be better than making people laugh?

Basketball was every day of my life. Wake up with a ball – sometimes I’d sleep with it because someone told me that was better for you.

I don’t really connect with super-sad, somber songs.

Album 1 is proving that you’re worth listening to, album 2 is proving that it wasn’t a fluke, and album 3 is the most authentic thing I’ve ever done.

Once you see the impact that you have on people, either at a meet and greet or after a show, you think, ‘Oh man, they need to feel better today.’

As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.

That I even get to play a sold-out show where people know the words and I’m singing about things I’m connected to is such a blessing. It’s the equivalent of a nine-year-old saying, ‘I want to be an astronaut when I grow up,’ and then getting to go to the moon.

To be a good musician, you need to give people what they want, what they need.

You need to be growing and getting better, and in L.A., it’s so hard to get bookings. You literally have to pay clubs to book you. It’s pay to play, and then you only get 30 minutes. That’s no way to get good.

The fact that people put on ‘Honey, I’m Good’ to get their day started – that’s really sweet.

I love magic. Like, ‘pull a scarf out of your fake thumb‘ magic. I have a legit bag of ‘Magic Stuff‘ in my garage.

The alarm on my wife‘s phone is ‘Signed, Sealed, Delivered,’ so that’s a great way to wake up.

I love ‘Seinfeld.’

When you’re spending eight to 10 hours out there, the homeless guy is no longer homeless; it’s Dave. They become people to you. I think we’re really good in this country about saying that they’re homeless and, therefore, they don’t exist.

I think it would be really brutal to put on a persona and get famous for that persona. Like, ‘I’m number one, I’m the best!’ because that sounds like a lot of pressure.

I’m a singer-songwriter, but we get loud and we jump around. We have dance moves; we freak out. It’s really fun, man!

I am so blessed and lucky.

I grew up a huge jock, a lot of basketball and football. We had a pond in my back yard growing up, and we played a lot of hockey, too. I loved to score goals.

I think anyone in a relationship has to deal with temptation if they’re being honest with themselves. People don’t talk about it very much, but it’s very honest. Guys and girls both have temptation.

When I was a street performer, before I had any songs of my own that anybody would stop and put in money for, I would always be doing covers. Even with covers, people wouldn’t stop in the beginning.

You hear a lot of songs that are about people cheating or about infidelity. I haven‘t really heard one before about connecting with the noble part of yourself. I know it sounds a little bit cheesy, but that’s the real deal. There are a lot of people who are making a genuinely good, sweet decision on a daily basis.

There’s two things that are tough when you’re trying to be a songwriter: Number one is, how do I write a great song? The second thing is, how do I write a great song that’s right for me?

Stevie Wonder makes my heart happy and is my spirit animal. That is all.

‘The Good Parts‘ is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven’t shared before. It’s like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.

I know that sounds almost horribly cheesy, but that is what has to happen if you’re gonna make a relationship work for a long time: You have to keep learning new things that are interesting about this person or having them catch you off guard and have these little moments of intense appreciation.

Street performing can be a great teaching ground and a barometer for what you’re doing. It’s rough and unforgiving at times, but it can be wild and fun and a real open canvas for your creativity.

I think that’s what makes a great show: when the performers onstage aren’t putting on a show, they’re legitimately just having a freaking awesome time.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

Who are you writing this for? For a commercial reason, or because you want to make great art and give it to your fans?

It’s a weird business. You’re trying to write something that’s built on magic, which is pretty stressful.

The first song that I had that went platinum was ‘Keep Your Head Up,’ which was a long time ago. Then, you get ‘one-hit wonder‘ with that.

Even a song like ‘Give Love,’ in my head, there’s a question as I’m writing it, going, ‘Is this cheesy? Is it too on the nose to say ‘give love?”

It’s really fun to have the spotlight and feel ready for it. Not in a conceited way. But just like, ‘Man, I think I’m going to give you what you need.’

I think that you just understand, as any creative person, that there’s a beast that you have to beat, and it never goes away. I’ve resigned myself to that, and it’s kind of what keeps you going. Writing is the worst and the best.

I love going places that could sound cheesy but, when you hear them, just sound sincere.

Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.

You either create something there on the street, or nothing happens. It’s brutal. But if you go through that for two or three years, it really toughens you up.

You get way better from playing to the passing public. You learn how to entertain. But it took me a good three years out on the promenade to figure that out. You also learn what makes them stop dead in their tracks and what doesn’t.

A lot of the albums that I’ve been really into are like, ‘Oh man. That doesn’t make him look like a perfect human. That actually shows his warts and his scars, and for some reason, I’m super drawn to him now because he shared that or she shared that with me.’

We all need songs that bring out our inner swagger just listening to it.

Life is hard, but there are moments, sometimes hours – and, if you’re really lucky, full days – where everything feels just right.

‘Fresh Eyes‘ was my own little discovery of having been in a relationship for a while and realizing that my favorite part of it is being surprised.

Hunger is an issue that I’ve cared about for a very long time and is incredibly personal and important to me.

The first album was more born from busking – they were the ‘me-and-my-guitar’ songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, ‘OK, I need to write some music that’s a little bit bigger.’

A big part of my upbringing was being with an instrument and kind of figuring myself out through music. So I feel a strong desire in any way that I can to help do that for other kids.

It’s not hard to create a song, but to write a song that’s really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.

When I hear an interview that I’ve done, and I’ve said ‘like’ a bunch of times, it just cheapens the sentiment.

I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.

From losing my mom, I’ll never be okay; I’ll never be put together again.

Seriously, until I was 16 or 17, I didn’t care about anything other than ESPN.

One of my passions in life is to try to inspire people. I don’t know if that sounds cheesy, but I genuinely love to do that.

For each person, they live their life and their truth and how it works for them, and that’s just kind of how it works for me. I’m not good at doing whatever the other way is – it wouldn’t work for me.

I had my whole life to write a bunch of crappy songs and then play them in front of people and think, ‘All right, that one out of these seven is really good; it’s a keeper.’ But on this second album, to be honest, I probably wrote about 50 songs where I was just trying to write a hit.

I found that music was my favorite art form.

I am happy to join AutoNation in the fight against cancer. This disease hits close to home for me with the loss of my mom in 2009. Raising awareness and finding a cure is really important to me.

I’m from New York, so I’m simultaneously a snob and will also eat any pizza you put in front of me.

I wrote my first single, ‘Keep Your Head Up,’ and that’s what got me on the radio and helped me develop a whole base around the country.

You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one’s there to see you.

I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that’s all I do. I’ll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That’s what works for me.