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Agnes Obel
Agnes Obel
"I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments."
Agnes Obel
Me
Parents
More
Wish
"I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of disappear. But when it's just you... yes, that was difficult. I would not say it is easy now. But when you do it for a long time, you do learn to cope."
Agnes Obel
Long
You
Time
Difficult
"I'm not into having a pedigree dog."
Agnes Obel
Dog
Having
Pedigree
"Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic,' Sometimes I get annoyed when they say my stuff sounds 'like Satie'. No, it doesn't. At least, I don't think so."
Agnes Obel
Sometimes
Think
Everything
Like
"I have a difficult relationship with jazz. My parents really love it, and I went to a school where jazz was considered the best thing ever, so I had to leave it be for a long time. But now I'm rediscovering it. I'm approaching jazz in a different way."
Agnes Obel
Love
Best
Long
Time
"I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't fit my character, either."
Agnes Obel
Character
Way
Mentality
Been
"I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you."
Agnes Obel
Love
You
Look
Everything
"When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best."
Agnes Obel
Best
Always
Demo
Liked
"When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself."
Agnes Obel
Myself
Music
Chance
Big
"What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind of project and nobody would care... and that's what I sort of adopted to my own."
Agnes Obel
You
Freedom
Care
Nobody
"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
Agnes Obel
Anger
Revenge
Frustration
Feeling
"Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism."
Agnes Obel
Music
Travel
Doing
Something
"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."
Agnes Obel
Me
Feel
Sometimes
Anything
"I've heard from other artists that people are a little bit more reserved in Northern Europe, which comes across at concerts, where the audience may be quieter. So this means less hecklers, but maybe it also means that people may not be as open about how they felt. I'm not so sure this is especially true of Denmark, but it's what I've heard."
Agnes Obel
People
True
More
About
"I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules."
Agnes Obel
Music
Yourself
Way
Rules
"It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to go in a sparse direction."
Agnes Obel
Difficult
Song
Direction
Always
"The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves."
Agnes Obel
Best
People
Ideas
Who
"The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me."
Agnes Obel
Me
Music
Never
Interested
"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."
Agnes Obel
Me
You
Singing
Like
"My parents were very relaxed about music."
Agnes Obel
Music
Parents
About
Relaxed
"I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from."
Agnes Obel
You
Music
Happy
Pleasure
"With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting something. In many ways, I've said everything in the song. And either I can't go back to what it was because it's changing when I play it, or I still haven't figured out what the song is about."
Agnes Obel
Song
Everything
Back
Go
"Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share."
Agnes Obel
Love
Music
Loneliness
Words
"I love the conversation between film and music."
Agnes Obel
Love
Music
Conversation
Between
"I don't have a daily routine at all."
Agnes Obel
Daily
Routine
"My mum is a big collector of art."
Agnes Obel
Art
Big
Collector
Mum
"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
Agnes Obel
Revenge
Frustration
Feelings
"I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration."
Agnes Obel
Revenge
Frustration
Feelings
"When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experience, it's nice to open that up a bit with music."
Agnes Obel
Beautiful
Nice
Piano Music
"I love the conversation between film and music."
Agnes Obel
Film
Conversation
Film And Music
"On the last album, I didn't want to disturb the melody with too many stories. This time, I wanted to know if I was able to create images with words, with the sound of words.(...) 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. We are all listening with different perspectives.(...) I don’t want to impose my subjectivity to the listener."
Agnes Obel
Thinking
Perspective
Feelings
"There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. 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. I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it."
Agnes Obel
Teenager
Thinking
Class
"The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me."
Agnes Obel
"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."
Agnes Obel
Piano
Littles
Sometimes
"Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism."
Agnes Obel
Escapism
Music Is
Private Things
"The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves."
Agnes Obel
Ideas
People
Berlin
"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."
Agnes Obel
Two
Voice
Piano
"I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules."
Agnes Obel
Fun
Way
Express Yourself
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