Top 32 Agnes Obel Quotes
#1. I love the conversation between film and music.
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#2. And if I forget how many times I have been here,
and in how many shapes, this forgetting is the necessary interval of darkness between every pulsation of light. I return in every baby born.
Alan W. Watts
#3. It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction.
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#4. Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.
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#5. I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either.
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#6. With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about.
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#7. I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you ... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope.
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#8. The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
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#9. My parents were very relaxed about music.
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#10. I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.
Glenn Beck
#11. Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so.
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#12. The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
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#13. I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way.
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#14. Never build relationships with others based on the words they speak instead of the actions they take.
Van Moody
#15. I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
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#16. I'm not into having a pedigree dog.
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#17. Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something that comes, is accumulated from me playing on the piano, and then this little creature just appears.
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#18. I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
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#19. I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
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#20. I really believe it's not bad to look back within music. I don't mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.
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#21. What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care ... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own.
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#22. When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
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#23. I do see music as complete refuge. It's a universal home, complete common ground between everyone; it comes from a place that has no nation and no boundaries around it.
Abigail Washburn
#24. When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.
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#25. Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
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#26. I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
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#27. Because we are now "temples" of God, we are now supposed to live differently from the rest of humanity.
Darin Bowler
#28. I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
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#29. I don't have a daily routine at all.
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#32. The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
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