Lukas Forchhammer Quotes
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We're like, 'Woah, are we even in that league where we get nominated for a VMA?' And yet our name is right down there among the other nominees. It's very, very strange coming from a country of five and a half million people.
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Dr. Dre's '2001' album changed modern pop music.
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Christiania has a lot of strong, nuclear families. It gave us a sense of empowerment and belonging and richness. We had so much love; we were never in doubt that we were wanted in this world.
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I write about what happens in my life - and my dad's passing was a huge blow to me.
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It's very satisfying when you see your song at the top of the charts.
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Graham was my father's second name, so I took Graham because Lukas Graham sounded cool.
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That's why I can't listen to a whole record of Adele's. She has the most amazing voice, but people must have convinced her they just want to hear love songs.
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When my dad died, my world crumbled.
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The songs were there before the band was there, and it's my songs. And it's like, we're not in the 1950s. We can't call ourselves, like, 'The Revolvers' - it just doesn't work that way. And 'The Lukas Graham Band' just sounded wrong.
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I really like singing. I believe that if I wasn't a good singer, I would have been tossed out of school.
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I don't play any instruments. I don't produce. I don't know which keys or chords I am using, so, in essence, I need the band and the production team - otherwise, I am just some guy with a hat and a song.
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It's not that I'm trying to write another '7 Years' or a new version of 'Mama Said.' Songs just kind of come out of nowhere, and you need to catch them when they do.
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I remember getting a toilet in our house. I remember sharing a bedroom with my sister, and my little sister was sleeping in my mom and dad's room.
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We mix a lot of genres - soul, pop, jazz - but we most agree on hip-hop.
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My biggest influence is rap. It spoke to me, probably because of my upbringing in Christiania. You listen to 'The Chronic' and you can hear that anger and frustration.
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What hit me in the gut about hip-hop was that someone else grew up tough enough to be angry at the entire system.