Words matter. These are the best Agnes Obel Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
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.
I’m not into having a pedigree dog.
My parents were very relaxed about music.
I don’t have a daily routine at all.
I really believe it’s not bad to look back within music. I don’t mean retro, but using your own memories to make a song because our memories are what make us who we are.
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.
I love the conversation between film and music.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
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.
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 learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself – that there aren’t really any 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.
My mum is a big collector of art.
I don’t have a classical-music mentality. I haven’t been taught that way, and it doesn’t fit my character, either.
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.
I love Denmark. But it is a very safe place, and it is easy to let the state look after everything for you.
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.
I don’t have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.
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.
When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
