Gustav Ejstes Quotes:

When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Pissed Off, Angry, Vocal

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want. The lyrics of my songs are about different things, but it's all about my issues.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Song, People, Different

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. So then I try, and I watch it become something totally different. But that's the way I have to do it.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Song, Feelings, Trying

I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: People, Inspired

I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Song, Years, Ideas

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Tunes, Connections, Tone

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

source: - Source: pitchfork.com

Topics: Teenage, Years, Hip Hop, Teenage Years

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Teenager, Long, Hip Hop

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Play, Achievement, Way, Lifetime Achievement

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Thinking, Space, Want

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Song, Thinking, Interesting

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Thinking, Feet, Done

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.

Topics: People, Music Is, Making People Happy

Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Easy, Take It Easy, Approach

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Thinking, Strange, Stage

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

Topics: Song, Feelings, Beats

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.

Topics: Trying, Music Love, I Love Music

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

source: - "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

Topics: Night, Alcohol, Drug, Stockholm