Jens Lekman Quotes
I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
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I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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A good litmus test is that you should be comfortable with your significant other being present when you hang out with your friend.
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What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
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When I was at Stanford, I was actually in the cancer biology program, but I mostly focused on infectious disease.
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I took tap and ballet, which likely contributed to my sense of rhythm and showmanship. I love creating music that gets people moving together, free of inhibitions.
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To drive an F1 car you have to be a little mad. On the morning of a race there's a mix of excitement and fear. If it's a wet track, then it's worse as you're not in control most of the time, which is the thing all drivers fear the most.
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I realised that music controls me more than I control music. I had to write songs that were convincing me that things would get better.
