Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it’s nice to open that up a bit with music.
AGNES OBELWe are all listening with different perspectives. I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.
More Agnes Obel Quotes
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When I’m flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful.
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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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There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued.
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It was more from my own relationship with the instruments at this time, figuring out the instrument and then having to learn different pieces that I really got into music.
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I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.
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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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On the last album, I didn’t want to disturb the melody with too many stories.
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This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.
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We are all listening with different perspectives. I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener.
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I love the conversation between film and music.
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I don’t have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
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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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I think that’s a good thing when the one who is listening, is feeling it in a different way that the one who creates.
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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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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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