Karin Dreijer Andersson Quotes

#1. Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#2. I have been able to find out what I really really want to do myself, trying out ideas that I haven't been able to do before because you don't have to compromise when you work by yourself.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#3. A hamburger by any other name costs twice as much.

Evan Esar

#4. Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger ... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#5. I have mostly software synthesizers and software drum machines. I'm very lazy. I don't really like to plug in a lot of equipment and external boxes and everything.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#6. I do not judge success based on championships; rather, I judge it on how close we came to realizing our potential

John Wooden

#7. Nowadays, especially when you think of electronic music, it's like, the producer is mostly the one who makes the music or the beats and everything. But I am more, since I'm that old, when I started to make music the producer was just sitting in the back shouting and drinking beer.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#8. The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation

John Green

#9. Sometimes I think I should get another job, and do this only for its own purpose. It's important to separate creative expression from making money.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#10. Music and art is about ideas, I think. Especially music. You have the freedom to work with your ideas and your dreams and your fantasies, which is quite hard to do in many other places.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#11. The real Muslim is the one who prefers speaking the truth even when it is ruinous to him over lying even when it benefits him, and who finds inner peace in doing so.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

#12. As soon as you close your eyes, the adventure of sleep begins."

-from "A Man Asleep

Georges Perec

#13. I believe that people would be happier sharing things and being much more of a collective rather than working from these neo-liberal ideas of just looking after yourself. I think people need each other.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#14. I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

Karin Dreijer Andersson

#15. To me, rock music was never meant to be safe. I think there needs to be an element of intrigue, mystery, subversiveness. Your parents should hate it.

Trent Reznor