Agnetha Faltskog Quotes

Is it not the business of the conductor to convey to the public in its dramatic form the central idea of a composition; and how can he convey that idea successfully if he does not enter heart and soul into the life of the music and the tale it unfolds?

A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

I feel like I'm a secondary artist, a kind of a conduit for the writer, and if it's a good writer, then I have a great road map.

I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.

I want people to really recognize that this is what I am naturally good at: I'm really good at making music and describing your feelings vicariously through my experiences, through my past and my future. I want people to relate to me in multiple ways and be versatile in my music.

Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But singing other people's songs can be an intensely personal experience. I want the songs to be vessels that people fill with their own imagination, the same way that I fill it with my thoughts and feelings.

I make music for people to relate to and to connect with me. I want to tap into different emotions.

I think it's exciting that fans can immediately pick up on what my music is about and what I'm leaning towards: that they get to actually feel it.

For me, the choreography always comes from the music.

With Mr. Bungle, I'd lay down a really rough demo of my vocals and then play them for the guys without telling them what I was saying. Our drummer at the time had the coolest takes on what he thought I was saying, so I'd ask him to write out what he thought the lyrics were.

I have fallen deeply in love with songs - musical theatre songs included - over the years, and this experience has taught me to hear and honor the writer's voice in my soul.

Music is the embodiment of my soul. When I play, I'm not performing a song: I'm becoming it.

That's my favorite part about songwriting, the way you write a song, and someone else might hear it a different way.

The whole deal with my music has been the emotional quality.

When a guitarist can evoke a certain mood through his playing, that's what's most important to me.

Lyrically, I've always thought about albums as a record of a period of time.

I feel music-making is more like a psychological game; each film has its own colour that needs to be identified and addressed.

I don't think Beethoven expresses religious truth. He expresses a human truth.

A lot of my vocals were the first time I ever sang the song.

For someone like me, music is all I've ever thought about - playing big shows, and then, when you take something that is based around your music and put it in a completely different medium, it's a really interesting and cool emotion to watch.

I usually know the general emotion of a song, or the general feeling of it, and then I think I just get so excited by the act of recording. I love that process so much that I feel like if I knew exactly what I wanted I'd arrive at something too soon.

Personally, I love music, as it's my first love, and if I ever act, it has to be something close to music. That's when I will feel great about doing it.

I get into a zone where I'm really in my own world when I make music.

I'm always seeing stuff and imagining scenes in my head when I'm making music.

I have worked with a lot of people, all very different creatives, helping me hone my craft and discover myself as an artist and the record I want to make. It's such an amazing process seeing and hearing the tracks that people could eventually be listening to on my debut album!