Andy Grammer Quotes

I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears.

When you're going through tough moments, you never know when you're going to have good moments.

The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.

I've never been a depressive, but I felt quite close to the edge at times. But you never know what's around the corner. Mercifully, what's around the corner is joy.

Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched.

The end of bad news is always good news.

I've always had a tendency to keep an emergency exit in a song. I can't remember ever writing a song that is completely and thoroughly depressing; there's always been a way out somehow. A sense of hope in song, regardless of the subject matter.

I don't think 'Shotgon Stories' or 'Take Shelter' have hopeless endings. I think there's hope in both those films, no matter how hard you have to search for it. It's there.

Today's teardrops are tomorrow's rainbows.

I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.

My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.

I want no part of making any contribution whatsoever to the despair which eventually follows downbeat thinking.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

'The Taxi Ride,' from my second album, is one people want to hear a lot. I'm consciously trying to walk on the sunny side of the street, to really lift myself into a place of greater positivity, and that's a sad song.

Ah, Hope! what would life be, stripped of thy encouraging smiles, that teach us to look behind the dark clouds of today, for the golden beams that are to gild the morrow.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel... hopefully its not a freight train!

I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can find hope in all my films.

Propaganda must appeal to mankind's better judgment and to the necessary belief in a better future. For this belief, the valley of the shadow of death is but a war station on the road to the blessed summit.

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.

I've never thought of my characters as being sad. On the contrary, they are full of life. They didn't choose tragedy. Tragedy chose them.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.