Agnes Obel quotes
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“I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.”
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“I love the conversation between film and music.”
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“I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there arent really any rules.”
-- Agnes ObelSource : "Agnes Obel taps into the piano's 'dreamy nature'". Interview with Victoria Fleischer and Rachel Wellford, www.pbs.org. September 5, 2014.
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“Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.”
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“The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.”
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“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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“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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“On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.”
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“The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.”
-- Agnes ObelSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music.”
-- Agnes ObelSource : Source: puregrainaudio.com
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“There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.”
-- Agnes ObelSource : Source: puregrainaudio.com
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