Words matter. These are the best Floor Jansen Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I’m used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.
Even though Nightwish is my life and I love what I do – I could do this every day – to not do it really makes you desire even more for it again.
Musically, I have little ambition. The only real ambition I have is to make music and do music whenever I feel like it, without any real ambition or planning.
I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.
Sometimes, I would love to record a super-quiet album, but for some reason, I never really got to that because my heart lies with the heavy stuff.
Why should we bother making a super high-quality, expensive album if nobody is going to pay for it anyway and will just download it for free as an MP3 that has no depth whatsoever because of the small file size?
I cannot work on a Revamp album when I tour with Nightwish. And I cannot do any Nightwish stuff when I’m touring with Revamp.
I wasn’t personally that familiar with the Classic Rock bands. That is where Jorn Viggo came in: he played me tons of that stuff – Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, plus a lot of bands with cool songs, riffs, vocals, etc. We really listened to tons of music.
I really like to meet people, but only when I have the energy for it.
When I have the opportunity to meet fans that support me, I always try to do so.
Everybody needs to take a little distance from things.
It’s good to reflect on life and take a step back and sit and relax and do something else.
I don’t have a poker face at all – I have a very, very expressional face, and I have no control over that.
For me, I’m way more at home in heavy metal than I am in classical music.
There is a project that I did back in 2008 with a Norwegian guitar player, Jorn Viggo Lofstad, who plays in Pagan’s Mind. We wrote a rock album, and we never released it.
I had the idea to spend the year off in 2008 and start writing a rock album. I wanted to do something else other than melodic metal after more than ten years of After Forever. I thought it would be nice to sidestep into rock.
I think every physiotherapist will tell you that it’s not a very good idea, and there are many musicians in the metal scene who have suffered severe damage – like, the guitar player from Iced Earth, Jon Schaffer, had severe neck problems due to headbanging.
I find the opera part in ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ challenging.
I do know I will enjoy family life. What I’ve seen from moms, or heard stories from people who became a parent, it’s such a consuming thing; it’s such a wonderful thing. I consider it an extreme luxury to have that time and to not have to do anything else, and just be with my kid.
Who on earth would expect a band such as Nightwish, to give you, of all people, the phone call, ‘Hey, can you come and join us now?’ Yeah, that turned everything upside down.
Everybody meets a lot of idiots in their line of work, not just in music.
If you are waiting for this thing that might happen tomorrow, it probably will never happen. You need to activate it now! No one else is going to do it for you, and ten years are going to go by before you even know it.
You always speak the language you hear most.
Since the moment I joined with Nightwish, I have been working non-stop.
Make music when I want to in whatever style I would like to. That is something that I know that I’m not the only Nightwish member who has that. That’s a luxury we can take, and we will.
Meeting fans and taking pictures is an extra I would like to offer when time and energy allow it. It’s not something a fan can presume to have.
A good glass of red wine or maybe a little bit too much every now and then is just fine. Heavy boozing, not so much, because you don’t recover enough from it.
The success of Revamp is clear. We’ve sold a lot of albums, we’ve done very good tours, and wherever we play, we get a very positive response, and that’s something that would be very nice to keep.
Unfortunately, life unfolds as it does, and you can’t do everything at the same time, and you can’t do some things if you can’t spend the time.
Revamp is a band that would deserve the hundred-percent devotion a band needs, and at this moment, I don’t see any future for another band next to a band such as Nightwish, and with the ambition to become a mother, I will have to let Revamp go, which is a very sad decision.
When you used to be able to express yourself as an adult in your own language, or as I can do in English, for instance, it’s sometimes hard to switch back to very simple talking, like I am forced to do in Finnish. So a real conversation, when I really wanna tell something, I can’t do it in Finnish.
My Finnish, it never really happened, but I’m good in Swedish.
Thinking Slayer’s music is not my thing doesn’t mean I don’t respect the band for what they are and what they’ve done. I just won’t play it. As I can imagine they won’t listen to mine either, for that matter.
