Andrew To
Andrew To
Andrew Tois a member of the Wong Tai Sin District Council, Hong Kong. Of Hakka ancestry, he is the former chairman of League of Social Democrats from 2010 to 2011, succeeding Wong Yuk-man. His wife, Jackie Hung, was a leader of Civil Human Rights Front and Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese...
singing three violin
Playing the violin and singing and whistling are just three different ways of making sound.
important social
Music as a social conduit has always been important to me.
player scrabble terrible
I'm a terrible Scrabble player.
thinking play violin
Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.
interesting nomenclature
There's a lot of interesting words, nomenclatures, in science.
song art needs
I don't get particularly precious about things like this, though. Like the record company said, "We need a radio edit that delivers the hook" - I don't even know what they consider the hook in that song ["Oh No"] - "that delivers the hook sooner." So I'm like, "Okay. I see that." And they were all walking on eggshells, like is this going to be sacrilegious to me or something, to mess with this art I've created? And I'm like, "Great. I get to tinker with it, I get to mess with my song some more."
practice comforting rooms
There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.
thinking violin tone
I think when I was pretty young I got really into the tone of my instrument and I remember just playing one note for an hour to just kind of feel the resonance of the violin.
singers way singer-songwriters
The way I work, I'm not a confessional singer-songwriter.
song stones rolling
It's not set in stone. I like to keep it rolling and changing, and so I am like, "Great, I get to remake my song."
song writing ideas
The idea of writing songs because you're depressed and you need to communicate it somehow, that isn't really true for me.
play roots firsts
The first notes I still play when I start a sound check are classical. Those are my roots.
song inspire restlessness
No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.
drama character epic
Norman is a very up-close, personal, character drama and I'd like to do something more zoomed out, a little more pastoral, some sweeping epic. I'd like to try something different.