Quotes by Agnes Obel

About Agnes Obel:

Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel is a Danish singer/songwriter. Her first album, Philharmonics, was released by PIAS Recordings on 4 October 2010 in Europe. Philharmonics was certified gold in June 2011 by the Belgian Entertainment Association (BEA) for sales of 10,000 units. At the Danish Music Awards in November 2011, Agnes Obel won five prizes: Best Album, Best Pop Release, Best Debut Artist, Best Female Artist and Best Songwriter.
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I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

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My mum is a big collector of art.

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When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

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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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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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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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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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I really like Berlin! When I went there, it felt like a big city and a village all at the same time. I didn't really understand the place to begin with, but I was very curious, and I came home and told everyone that I'd be moving there. It was a leap...

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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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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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I love the conversation between film and music.

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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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The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

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My parents were very relaxed about music.

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I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

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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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Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

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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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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameAgnes Obel
  • DescriptionDanish singer and pianist
  • BornOctober 28, 1980
  • CountryDenmark
  • ProfessionSinger-songwriter; Singer