Agnes Obel Quotes
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm on stage, I know exactly where I am. It's not an ego thing or anything like that, but I am more in my body and aware of myself and aware of what I'm doing, and I feel more from that, from sharing the music.
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I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.
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The idea of music is to liberate the listener and lead him to a frame where he feels he is elevated.
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There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives.
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Music is all about leadership and there ain't really a lot of leaders.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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I'm disregarding all the rules I've seen as people approach writing music. I'm trying to break them.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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I've been loving music all my life.
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Listening to soft music and the sound of the ocean is quite relaxing to me.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Music can be made anywhere, is invisible and does not smell.
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I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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After it became clear that I was not going to graduate, I had this moment where I was like, 'I need to not sulk. I need to pursue - at least try - to pursue music. But if I don't try, I'm going to be a really bitter middle-aged lady working in a cubicle.'
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Touring is a whole other animal for me and a whole other skill. But I'm having a lot of fun figuring all that out and switching it from internal to external and putting on a show.
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Serious music usually doesn't pay.
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Life is too short to listen to bad music.
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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.
