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.
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me. - Agnes Obel
The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
- Agnes Obel
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices. - Agnes Obel
The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You can say they are like two equal voices.
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules. - Agnes Obel
I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself, that there aren't really any rules.
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, … - Agnes Obel
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, …
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism. - Agnes Obel
Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves. - Agnes Obel
The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.
There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the … - Agnes Obel
There was a band very early on in our class, and I played in that band and as a teenager, I continued. It was more from my own relationship with the …
I love the conversation between film and music. - Agnes Obel
I love the conversation between film and music.
When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experienc… - Agnes Obel
When I'm flying, I really like to listen to piano music. Something impressionistic, loud and beautiful. Flying can be such a claustrophobic experienc…
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