Top 106 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Howard
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Last updated on September 17, 2024.
I'm not very good at dancing.
Just to get asked to a Ibiza Rocks is a big thing.
A lot of the bars are really nice to me now because they've heard me on the radio.
I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.
The recording sessions for 'Noonday Dream' were so varied and over quite a period of time.
For me, recording was a lot about honing my guitar skills and honing my singing.
I've always thought I crossed this really weird gap between the pop world and some slightly more left-field singer-songwriter music, but everyone's always comparing me with Ed Sheeran. It's frustrating.
It's hard on the road, you don't get too much time to sit down and focus.
I went around driving myself to gigs everywhere, and eventually, people just kept coming back.
I've surfed on Lake Michigan.
I got thrust a guitar by my mum as a little kid and always played it. I sort of fell in and out of love with it, there were times when I hated it when I was ten and was forced to go to lessons.
I live in a small town so I get recognised a lot which is weird.
I never understood how one could write a whole book: It is so technically challenging, and it's incredible the way writers put entire worlds inside of them on such a large scale. I tend to have that same feeling when I listen to music - it daunts me and makes me feel quite unsettled listening to so much talent and ambition.
I think New York City is a lot more European than the rest of America; it's much easier for an English person to wrap their head around it.
In my late teens, I fell out of love with music - you know how kids are, when you're encouraged to do something, you rebel. But then I picked it back up again.
I was never in music to make it to award shows.
Surfing and music have always been two separate sides of my life. I'm quite a fun-loving person most of the time, but I feel like I always get the serious side out when I'm playing music, and then I have fun the rest of the time when I get in the sea.
I met Xavier Rudd at a surf festival in England.
The kind of fans I have are those who allow the songs to be part of their lives; indeed, it's as if the songs aren't mine anymore.
I'm one of those artists who doesn't really believe in fame. You can be a normal person these days, you don't need celebrity appeal.
Women and their impact, good and bad. It makes men write songs. I write about relationships, basically.
It's a privilege to be from England and be able to come over to America and have people listening to music and really enjoying it.
If you had told me many years ago that I'd have been headlining Longitude, or festivals like it, I would have thought it was unimaginable.
I have problems with guitars, I hammer away at it sometimes and I also do little intimate picks, I'm always looking at new guitars and little extra tweaks and stuff, I like to mix it up a bit.
John Martyn is my biggest hero. My mom got me into his music when I was a kid. I've looked up to him more than anyone as a songwriter. And Bert Jansch is one of the pillars of acoustic music, the holy grail.
I just write about myself all the time, which is a funny one, because I don't really like sharing much stuff with other people, apart from music.
I'm not very good at speeches.
We were selling out venues, not just in London but also major cities in France and Germany before labels had even noticed what we were doing.
I've never been a fan of all the R&B and vocoder stuff you hear on the radio.
I kind of feel that as soon as you've played a song to one other person, then it's something you share together.
I have a platinum-selling record but I can walk around fine.
I've been going to Ibiza all my life really, since I was a kid.
The U.K. is pretty good at being environmentally conscious.
I'm not prolific, I go over stuff and it goes for me and sometimes against me. I'm annoyed that I don't do enough stuff off-the-cuff. It's a difficult thing to do something quickly and stand behind it.
We played a lot of live shows, we just kept plugging away and playing music and people kept coming back.
We adapt very quickly to things, don't we?
I think the most frustrating thing is when people... sometimes people are a bit lazy and they don't listen to something, and they'll just say you sound like something else and it's quite clear that you don't, I think that's frustrating.
I think it's important to find your own voice in your own space.
In the countryside, you're always hearing sheep, birds, tractors and farm equipment.
That's the biggest thing we're excited about: to be in America and have shows sell out is an incredible thing.
I don't think I've ever been particularly careerist about music.
It's amazing how English music manages to travel to America and obviously, American music in the U.K. is massive.
The only thing you can worry about is pleasing yourself and that's probably more impossible than pleasing other people.
People may say I'm difficult but I'm not. I'm a bit shy but it's funny how I can sing in front of an audience and get up on a stage.
I studied to be a journalist, but I don't think I would have made a very good one. I don't have the work ethic.
It's the bane of my life and my existence, people telling me to be a little more succinct with what I write.
A live show is a room full of sound and people and now you have technology where people can film it and take it away and all that is lost afterwards but they have a souvenir.
I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
In England, it's usually cold. So surfing is more of an adventure where you're floating around in a big, dark, stormy sea rather than the California notion of girls in bikinis on beaches. It's really going into the fray. I like it because it gives you the extra time and space you need to think.
There's force-feeding people synthesised music, then there's a skill in technically being able to play an instrument, even if that is some electronic pad.
Without a doubt, Ibiza is one of my favourite places on the planet.
I think there are definitely positives when you go back to the familiar, because it's something you don't have to think about when you know the place. But sometimes on the other hand, it can be quite unchallenging.
As a singer-songwriter I definitely think I push the mould a lot.
There was no grand scheme, no big push, there are things I would have done differently now but you make decisions on the hop and it takes you where you are.
It's great to be part of the whole Ibiza Rocks vibe. Ibiza's always had a big gap when it comes to bands with guitars so it's great to be included really.
I need some time and space to make sure I'm on the right track with myself and playing music I want to play.
We've played all sorts of weird and wonderful places. You do all kinds of venues from heavy metal places in Germany to big ornate churches, and everything in between.
New York is one of my favorite places in the world, Brooklyn especially.
We spent so much time on 'Every Kingdom,' it was a real heart record.
Loud sounds are everywhere.
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