Top 40 Tarja Turunen Quotes

I have very different kinds of songs – there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are different kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music.

I could write songs on the beach, but the interior darkness, we have it all. We have it.

Gold, we think, is something polished and perfect, sophisticated, a luxury. But in its natural state, it’s a raw element.

I’ve been requested by hundreds of metal bands to be part of their albums or side projects.

Johnny Andrews can make me fly with his ideas for new songs. It has always been a pure pleasure to write with him.

Christmas for me is a time for being close to my family and those close to me.

Myself, I would love to record and film every performance I make, as each concert is special and unique.

Since many years, I realized that I have a darker side in me, even though I still believe I’m a very positive person. But still, there is still darkness that makes me write music and create in general, and it affects everything that I do. I believe it’s a beautiful darkness.

You need to think and live your life. You only live once. That’s how it is.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it’s been actually an incredible joyride.

Every time I sit down in front of my piano, I like to improvise with the instrument. It depends on my mood of that day what kind of melodies and rhythms I am playing around. Sometimes, even before starting to play I already have a quite clear picture of a song I would like to compose, or at least the sound of it.

I listen to classical music when I need to relax. It depends a lot on mood.

It really is very true that the more you do, the less you know. I try to keep myself very open-minded in that sense.

I love this freedom that has been given to me as an artist to express myself.

I mean, being a solo artist is very different than being a member of a band. It’s absolutely different. The whole situation is very different – situations where you can’t really compare, it’s so very different. But I found happiness.

It’s incredible how much beauty exists in the world of music and how many artists you can really inspire with your own work.

I wake up usually quite late, just in time for the lunch, especially if I sleep badly during the night.

I would be ready to rejoin Nightwish if all the members of the band and the management team were changed.

I write a song for myself because I need to come out with that particular song.

I have sung at Christmas many times in Finland, especially in churches.

We go to church every year on Christmas morning.

I think that when I am making music, if I can be really happy with it and get my message across, then that is the most important thing.

If you think of people, the majority of us, we can’t do what we really love. I am really grateful that I can work with my dream.

The Brightest Void’ gives more than a first taste of ‘The Shadow Self;’ it is a full album filled with nine songs!

Until the governments don’t have a clear law against piracy and the digital downloads are not working worldwide properly, the record industry will keep on suffering.

When I need some energy in the morning I can put a metal CD in my player, because it gets me going! Classical music will send me off the road!

If I’m singing powerfully, I need something powerful behind me so that I don’t feel like I am left alone.

I was with Nightwish for such a long time that I still feel the band as a part of myself. I was one of the most important elements in Nightwish for nine years, and the band was an essential part of myself too.

I love music, and that is what I care for, and that is what I deliver for people.

I finished my university studies with classical music while being in a successful metal band, but that was not an easy task at all.

I think it’s really important to be humble for the music because there is always someone better than you, there is always something new for you to learn for music and you can’t be the best in the world. It makes you work very hard.

I’m a workaholic. My listeners, I think, they know me as a workaholic already. But, you know, work is my love.

Actually, the whole thing of being a solo artist has been such a learning process for me. Since I departed from my previous band, NIGHTWISH, it was the whole beginning of my career, there was stuff in the air. I had to learn so much.

I’ve always enjoyed the respect from my male colleagues or my audiences all over the world. I’ve never suffered by the fact of being a woman on the road.

I never thought in my whole life of becoming a heavy metal singer, but it just happened because I took the challenge.

With my classical training and coming from a metal band, producers didn’t know what to expect. I like to shock people, though.

Actually I do not listen to much opera music.

I go to metal concerts as well as classical concerts, and I love both of them.

Music really makes you keep your feet on the ground. People can really see if you’re honest. That is the truth, they really can see through you.

Producing a dark Christmas album in the middle of the summer is a very interesting process, especially if you are doing it by the turquoise Caribbean Sea.