Quotes by Jens Lekman - Page 3

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Cities
Sweden
Towns
Love Weird People
Small Towns
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I really love the idea of stepping into another character and being able to sing maybe stuff that is not my thought and my own opinions, but be able to portray someone else and take a walk in their shoes for a while.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Opinions
Portray
Stepping
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When I was working on 'Night Falls Over Kortedala,' I was listening a lot to 'Graceland,' the Paul Simon record. I really got into the lyrics on that album. The opening line is so brilliant, the way he sets the scene.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Brilliant
Opening
Paul
Paul Simon
Sets
Simon
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You carry all these hurts and breakups with you forever. But there is this sort of joyful realization that the things that caused you pain were real. There is something beautiful and invigorating in holding onto that.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Invigorating
Joyful
Realization
Caused
Hurts
Holding
Onto
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Every wedding is slightly different from the other. But you always get to meet the funny uncle and the weirdo relatives, and there's always someone trying to beat you up for not playing enough Beatles songs or something.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Wedding
Weirdo
Beatles Songs
Relatives
Uncle
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I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Moving On
Intensity
Tempo
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I think sometimes when I sit down to write a song, it doesn't come out naturally, but when you are writing an email to someone, especially if you are writing to a stranger, you write much more spontaneously, and it's freer.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Stranger
Naturally
Freer
Spontaneously
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When it comes to heartbreaks and disappointments, I often have to be more or less done with them to be able to write about them. Then you might ask why I would write about them at all, but I think I owe it to the Jens of the past.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Disappointments
Owe
More Or Less
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I still love touring rock clubs around the world, and that's something that's really a part of me. I love making albums, and I'm a wedding singer on the side; that's my parallel career. So I love all those aspects of making music.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Wedding
Clubs
Touring
Love Music World
Aspects
Parallel
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I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Male
Friendships
Hang
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When I was between seven and 13, I hated music. I wasn't interested in music at all. I'd tried to listen to it just because all my friends were getting into pop music and everything, and I remember I just wasn't interested at all. I liked drawing and science.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Drawing
Remember
Seven
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When you're writing about difficult things and darker issues, it's nice to offer some sort of light at the end of the tunnel. Some sense of hope. Sometimes, the best way to do that is by offering it in the music, so that you can dance your way out of the darkness.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Dance
Music
Best
Best Way
Difficult
Difficult Things
End Of The Tunnel
Issues
Light
Nice
Writing
Darker
Offer
Some
Sense
Tunnel
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In the past, I used to rely on the randomness of working with samples, which was a good way because it threw you in a completely different direction. You just thought, 'What if I take this samba drum and combined it with an '80s synth line or something from this record?'
Jens Lekman / Musician
Good Way
Randomness
Rely
What If
Good Past Way
Combined
Direction
Drum
In The Past
Record
Samples
Synth
Threw
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I think when you get into your 30s, you start to realize all of the patterns you have in your life and all of the stuff that you're avoiding. It's a terribly unsung period in people's lives. I can't think about many artists who have sung about it, because it's so not sexy.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Avoiding
Patterns
Sexy
Life Start People
Terribly
Sung
Unsung
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I had so many songs that were actually sort of finished. And I deleted them. I wrote on my website that I'd put them on the shelf, but that wasn't true. I actually deleted them from my computer. I got sort of trigger-happy and I think I deleted about 200 songs from my computer.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Computer
Song
Thinking
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I realize that 'Postcards' was like input, and 'Ghostwriting' was output. I had all these frustrations and feelings before I did those two projects. 'Postcards' was something that brought new life and creative inspiration into the record, while 'Ghostwriting' was relieving myself.
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Input
New Life
Output
Postcards
Frustrations
Relieving
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A lot of people would write to me long stories from their lives, and I felt they were thinking of me as some sort of treasure chest to keep their secrets. I felt like sometimes they would tell me stories they wouldn't tell anybody else in the whole world. And I loved these stories.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Treasure
Thinking World Me
Anybody Else
Chest
Secrets
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I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Dignity
Silly
Joke
Entertain
Entertain People
In The End
Tear
Wrap
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I'm very very happy for my hardships and misfortunes: they build character and make you a better person. Even if I think it's something you have to carry with you, it's definitely something that makes you more empathic towards other people, makes you understand people and relationships so much better.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Happy
Better Person
Character
Misfortunes
Build
Person
Very
Understand
Much
Carry
Definitely
Even
Towards
Makes
Other
Relationships
Something
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I had a drummer in my band who started teaching me tricks to come up with interesting rhythms. Because I don't come from a musical background, I've never studied music, and I don't know music theory at all, so a lot of stuff I discover on my own are things students would learn in the first grade of music.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Drummer
Tricks
Music Me Never
Discover
First Grade
Grade
Rhythms
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When I was a kid, I had a period in my life when I was eight or nine when I was so scared of dying that I wouldn't go out of our house for a whole year. I refused to step out of the door because I thought something would happen. I had all these compulsive thoughts or whatever, and my head was really messed up.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Dying
Messed Up
Nine
Messed
Refused
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I started playing bass in my friend's band for some reason. It was just something I did because, well, he asked me if I wanted to play bass and he played me this song - Nirvana's version of "Molly's Lips", the Vaselines song - and he said, "You can do this! This is not hard!" and it's like a two-note song. I learned that and then I thought I was a genius.
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Play
Song
Two
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The beauty of the collage technique is that you're using sounds that have never met and were never supposed to meet. You introduce them to each other, at first they're a bit shy, clumsy, staring at their shoes. But you can sense there's something there. So you cut and paste a little bit and by the end of the song you can spot them in the corner, holding hands.
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Artist
Cutting
Song
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Actually, I caught myself thinking that I was hoping for someone to break into my apartment and steal my computer, or a big fire would take place in my apartment, or thinking of uninstalling my firewall so someone could hack into my computer. I just had all these dreams and eventually realized what I needed to do was delete the songs because I really wasn't happy with them. I needed a fresh beginning.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Dream
Song
Thinking
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I lived in a suitcase for a year, and then a relationship brought me to New York for about four months, then I lived in Melbourne. Then I moved back to Gothenburg because the immigrant laws are strict for both Australia and the U.S., and I would have to marry someone to get into those countries. But I wouldn't really be able to get involved in a sham marriage without being able to tell anyone about it.
Jens Lekman / Musician
New York
Australia
Country
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Sometimes it's not like I write very specific, it's more like I add an atmosphere almost to something that might have been quite awkward in my mind from the beginning. Something has happened and I want to force myself to think of it in a more positive way. And then I force myself to write something that convinces me that this is actually something pretty good or something that I learned something valuable from.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Awkward
Thinking
Writing
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I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.
Jens Lekman / Musician
Insignificant Things
Song
Writing
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