Robyn Quotes

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People think plus-size models don’t exercise – we do! But it’s about health, not forcing my body to be something it’s not meant to be.

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Exercise, Thinking, People

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Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out.

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Dancing, Stuff, Way

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 28, 2010.

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You have to invest something [in your work]. If you don't risk something that really matters to you - like your integrity, or your pride, or your time, or your security, or your reputation - if you don't risk yourself, you can hear it right away.

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Integrity, Pride, Risk

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I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

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Real, Trying, Emotion

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 28, 2010.

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The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

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Mother, Orchids, Mother Nature

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Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

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Long, People, World

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Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet.

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Technology, People, World

Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 28, 2010.

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You cant censor peoples dreams.

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Dream, Cant

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The funny thing about gold is how quickly it can tarnish.

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Funny Things, Gold

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When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.

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Healing, Doors, Self

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History is filled with fictional people.

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People, Filled

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The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends.

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Mean, Ideas, Safe

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When I'm in the studio, I become a total nerd.

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Nerd, Studios

Source: pitchfork.com

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Commercial music is music that a lot of people connect to at the same time, but that doesn't mean it has to be something shallow or without personality.

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Mean, Commercial Music, People

Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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Activists are cultural artists. They envision a world that does not yet exist, and then take action to create that world.'

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Artist, Doe, World

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All the big pop acts that I've been into over the years - whether it's ABBA or Prince - managed to combine amazing melodies and honest human emotion. But coming out of the super-super-commerical pop industry in the 90s, maybe people forgot about the fact that pop music can do both of those things.

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Years, People, Facts

Source: pitchfork.com

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I always felt like I could combine good pop songs that are easy for people to like with a real person and a real mind and integrity. So maybe I bring people into that pop world who don't usually find themselves there because there's not enough stuff for them to get excited about otherwise. I try to be genuine. I try to be real. It's such a subjective thing, but I try to convey an emotion.

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Song, Integrity, Real

Source: pitchfork.com

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Having access to mobile phones and being able to document your own life brings people together. Technology has a lot to do with how the world is developing at the moment because there are very raw and pure and primal emotions that people are communicating to each other over the Internet. It's like our new feathers, our new face paint. We're still trying to find love and friendship and cool music, but now it's over the Internet.

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Technology, People, Finding Love

Source: pitchfork.com

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I was speechless. Rare for me, but if anyone was capable of shocking me to silence, it was my mother.

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Mother, Silence, Speechless

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When I started making music, I made music in a very commercial space and I didn't have room to really explore things on my own terms. It took me awhile to create a little bubble where I could explore other things, and new things. When I did that, my tools were songwriting and arranging.

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Space, Tools, Littles

"Robyn and Röyksopp: 'We Have Been Slightly Ahead of Our Time'". Interview with Nolan Feeney and Sam Lansky, time.com. August 20, 2014.

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Sometimes I write songs that just come out in a pop format because I grew up on melody and these amazing artists during the 80s. It's my tradition and it's something that I can't really control.

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Song, Writing, Artist

Source: pitchfork.com

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It was about being able to dance like Cassidy did, as though no one was watching, as though the moment was infinite enough without needing to document its existence.

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Able, Infinite, Moments

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It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

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Fall, Leaving, Trying

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Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them, that the people buying milk in their pajamas or picking their noses at stoplights could be only moments away from disaster. That everyone's life, no matter how unremarkable, has a moment when it will become extraordinary - a single encounter after which everything that really matters will happen.

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Thinking, People, Waiting

"The Beginning of Everything". Book by Robyn Schneider, August 27, 2013.

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The way I figured it, keeping quiet was safe. Words could betray you if you choose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many.

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Mean, Keeping Quiet, Safe

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"People have so many expectations when they go out on stage, so many wishes about what their night is going to be: if they're going to meet that person, have a fun time with their friends, have a good high, hear good music. People get drunk and turn into themselves in a way, and they go to experience some kind of emotion. But it's not always about fun. There's a destructive side to it. But I'm more into the empowerment of going out, because it's always been the place where I could be myself and get inspired. Even if I'm sad, dancing is a way to let stuff out."

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pitchfork.com, added Dec 10, 2017

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Born: June 12, 1979
Occupation: Record producer
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