Yukimi Nagano Quotes

#1. My lesson from that [songwriting process] was that I should go back to where I was and try to make that first pure even more strong.

Yukimi Nagano

#2. We must have a pure, honest, and warm-hearted motivation, and on top of that, determination, optimism, hope, and the ability not to be discouraged. The whole of humanity depends on this motivation.

Dalai Lama

#3. ... for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. I didn't really like jazz that much and was unhappy in that genre. It was what I was doing just to get by and pay rent.

Yukimi Nagano

#5. As to the garden, it seems to me its chief fruit is-blackbirds.

William Morris

#6. One of my strict, strict rules is a no auto-tune policy.

Yukimi Nagano

#7. A tiny detail can make you feel completely different. I feel different if I wear something that I'm slightly uncomfortable in.

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#8. I was really into R&B and stuff like that, so I really wanted to sing like Faith Evans or Mariah Carey. But I definitely don't have the skills to sing like that.

Yukimi Nagano

#9. I find it a little stressful when you're in a really nice studio and you feel time ticking and the bill getting higher.

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#10. I don't write hits. If you just open that door, you're going to get a hit.

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#11. Swedes, compared to Americans, can seem a little cold and introverted.

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#12. I've worked with a lot of different producers, a lot of different writers on the album, so I mostly feel like I learned a lot about what I don't want to do the next time around.

Yukimi Nagano

#13. You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

Milton Friedman

#14. Every morning a new sun greets us and our new life begins.

Marty Rubin

#15. I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.

Kerri Walsh

#16. Gothenburg's definitely a music city as well, but I think just because of the weather - it's so cold and miserable - people stay in. Coming to the States and going into the store and people are like, "Hi, can I help you?" - I'm not used to people randomly talking to me that I don't know.

Yukimi Nagano

#17. I really like our studio. It's definitely not in any way slick; it's very homemade, literally. Everyone has their own room to produce and write, and [there's a] big rehearsal space.

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#18. Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.

Yukimi Nagano

#19. Sveta had much less to say, but she sat with Lev and held his hand, and when I asked her what had made her fall in love with him, she replied, 'I knew he was my future. When he was not there, I would look for him, and he would always appear by my side. That is love.'

Sveta

Orlando Figes

#20. You write music for yourself and if you just open that door and let people in, the audience is going to grow and it's going to become more accessible.

Yukimi Nagano

#21. I feel like I'm still learning a lot with writing lyrics. In the beginning, like the first record, I wasn't so aware.

Yukimi Nagano

#22. The self-anointed media elite among us believe, somewhat self-servingly, that not only the act, or process of making a profit is positively sinister, but also that the very desire to do so is.

Lachlan Murdoch