Floor Jansen Quotes
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I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.
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When a pregnancy begins, those cells begin their mitosis, and during the first three months, everything from limbs to organs to the brain and neurological system is being developed, and I never realized that would consume so much energy: it drains every bit of energy you have, and your hormonal status is changed dramatically!
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I didn't think of my pregnancy as a handicap for one minute, but having said that, I think the only big challenge was being so tired all the time.
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I don't have a poker face at all - I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.
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I had the idea to spend the year off in 2008 and start writing a rock album. I wanted to do something else other than melodic metal after more than ten years of After Forever. I thought it would be nice to sidestep into rock.
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But not to have music would be unnatural to me.
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Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.
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I wasn't personally that familiar with the Classic Rock bands. That is where Jorn Viggo came in: he played me tons of that stuff - Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, plus a lot of bands with cool songs, riffs, vocals, etc. We really listened to tons of music.
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I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it's not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage - like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.
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A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don't recover enough from it.
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Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.
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It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.
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I don't need to be the singer of Nightwish 24/7 when I'm not touring or when I want to go to the supermarket in my comfy pants.
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No... I don't like Slayer.
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Sometimes, I would love to record a super – quiet album, but for some reason, I never really got to that because my heart lies with the heavy stuff.
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I never really thought of myself as somebody to move abroad. It just came on my path.
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My Finnish is... I'm sounding like a three-year-old, at my best. It's super hard to really have a conversation, unfortunately. I know a lot of words, and so reading signs and stuff is becoming better, or going to a supermarket. But some specific words, of course, you don't get in your first year.
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There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.
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I agree that it's a macho world, metal, but it's also a very, very social world, where people are loving music in respect for one another, female or male.
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My Finnish, it never really happened, but I'm good in Swedish.
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For me, I'm way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.
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We are all entitled to our own opinion.
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Both the guys in Nightwish and I have experiences with previous band breakups and all emotions that come with it. It's almost like dating.
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If I'm happy, you can tell, and there's no way of faking it.