Words matter. These are the best Robyn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
When you become famous super young, you learn how to behave by the rules because you’re the one that has to take the stress. But that also creates a barrier that I really didn’t want.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing. My parents were so uninterested in me making music.
As a kid, I didn’t know much about Prince – who he was and all the complexities of his personality – but I could still feel very close to him when I listened to his music.
When you’re 17 and you have an idea, people don’t really listen to you. I came out of an environment where my parents were always pushing me to do what I wanted and be creative, and I was not used to the industry’s way of thinking.
The music industry used to be able to control a single dance on the very smallest level of when people are supposed to hear it, and when they’re supposed to start liking it, and when they’re supposed to start buying it. And that’s trashed, you know, that big machine that takes control and works albums for a long period.
I don’t know much about making films or TV programs, but what’s cool about being in the studio is that you have more time.
‘Honey’ was the first song I wrote where I was really enjoying myself again after questioning the idea of being an artist.
I seriously feel like Bowie was an astronaut who went into space and experienced things and brought back these… treasures.
I love telling stories, but I also am more aware now of how complex reality is and how difficult it is to really explain what happened or how I felt. Maybe that sometimes makes me a little bit vague, because I don’t want to really put my finger on anything or set it in stone.
I’d always been a club kid, so I was totally unaware that people had their own record companies.
Sure, the Internet is the future, but what we do on the Internet is still very primal. It’s all about connecting to other people, sharing emotion. It’s our new feathers or face paint. It’s all very raw.
When you’re listening to club music, there’s no reward. The reward isn’t, ‘Oh, here’s the chorus, here’s the lyric that makes sense.’ You have to enjoy what it is. You have to enjoy that there’s no conclusion.
I think I’m always adopting a persona. That’s how I look at pop music. I don’t feel like I have to be myself. I feel like I have to be true to myself, but I don’t have to show an exact picture of who I am.
I didn’t mind being in school. But I was usually uninspired and always late. I did what I had to, but not more.
When I say dance music, it’s anything that makes me want to dance. It could be Timbaland and Missy Elliott, but it could also be disco music and samba music: It’s not relying on melody in the same way; it’s more about rhythm.
Hearing is a subjective experience, but I never really understood that it’s the same with seeing as well. I always thought that everything we see is the same for everyone. But having these more psychedelic experiences of being really, really sad made me realize how brittle reality can be.
It’s called A Secret Gig because where and how it’s taking place won’t be revealed.
Everyone’s talking about how no one is buying records any more, but to me it’s quite logical. In the 1990s, music was so hardcore-marketed to a certain group of people that I think a lot of kids felt taken advantage of.
The marketing is just as important as the music, almost.
Being onstage and communicating with an audience was part of my life since I was very little, but I was never pushed into singing.
