Agnes Obel Quotations

The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.

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 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.

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, and then this little creature just appears.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Even though music is something I travel around doing, it is also a very private thing. A sort of escapism.

I learned that music should be fun and should be a way to express yourself - that there arent really any rules.

I love the conversation between film and music.

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 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.