Agnes Obel Quotes

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.

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.

When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

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.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

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.

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.

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.

I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there aren't really any rules.

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.

My parents were very relaxed about music.

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.

I love the conversation between film and music.

My mum is a big collector of art.

I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.

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.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.