Jenny Hval Quotes

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• When I write stuff that's provocative, I want people to think about that, too. I'm in between a pop musician and an artist in that way. I want people to be part of the music as they listen, but I also want them to think: What was that?

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Artist, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I disagree very strongly with people saying "that battle is over." If you've started a battle, I don't think it ever ends. The illusion that it's ended can reverse any good results that have come from it.

  Jenny Hval

  Thinking, People, Battle

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm constantly reading and trying to enlighten myself to how the world works in its silent ways to make everything seem normal when it's actually incredibly discriminating.

  Jenny Hval

  Reading, Trying, World

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Soft things are terrifying. They're the real signals of death. Images of strength can never be that terrifying. It's the images of weakness that are a real apocalypse.

  Jenny Hval

  Real, Weakness, Apocalypse

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'm very interested in the visual world because I'm also very interested in feminism. I find that the world of watching takes us into the most psychotic state of, like, "You are this one person, but you have to become another person to see these images."

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  Feminism, World, Like You

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When I was growing up, I would try to sing out of key very consciously. I was probably afraid of trying too hard to do something beautiful, and then I just wasn't good enough. But I've learned that I was also on the outside - wanting more challenge by living in that more conventional world.

  Jenny Hval

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Keys

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• Health is so important now, it's ridiculous - the body has become frightening, this thing that will kill you if you don't keep really healthy. The body is the enemy now.

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  Healthy, Enemy, Important

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• When you're outside of genre, you can expose more vulnerability.

  Jenny Hval

  Genre, Vulnerability

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• If you believe that you have nothing to fight for, that just means the people in power, and the people with money, can sneak anything into your life. Everything can be taken away from you.

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  Believe, Taken, Mean

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I'm not in any way trying to make statements that are not also invaded by emotions and abstract ideas that I don't really understand myself. It's more interesting when I can do that.

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  Ideas, Interesting, Trying

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• Gym is a center of capitalist breakdown, and everything is focused on the individual.

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  Individual, Breakdown, Capitalist

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I couldn't even have a guitar. But I got a three-track recorder that was so small that I could take it with me. Then I started recording and writing properly. I recorded lots of voices, not just my own. I was interested in people speaking and singing English and trying out words.

  Jenny Hval

  Writing, Guitar, Voice

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm not trying to be a solution or create a freer, utopian world. I think my music dreams of it, though.

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  Dream, Thinking, Trying

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• I'm obsessed with voices in film. I have this memory of how people say words, even on the most intensely stupid reality TV show.

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  Memories, Stupid, Reality

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• On an emotional level, I don't want to be a guide. I want people to hear things and experience them their own way.

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  Emotional, People, Levels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've never been good at being nostalgic, and I've never been able to focus on sound without having a voice that's very here-and-now.

  Jenny Hval

  Voice, Focus, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm inspired by that rawness in very direct communication. My work is not meant to keep people happy or give them an escape.

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  Communication, People, Giving

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• Norway is pretty forward thinking in terms of gender equality, but we don't seem to practice it as well as we think. I'm constantly thinking: How much power have we really gained? We have to keep fighting to even keep what we've fought for already.

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  Fighting, Thinking, Practice

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• It feels very different to have long, thick, brightly colored hair. It makes me feel so conflicted to wear, and I believe showing a conflicted person onstage is actually really interesting and emotionally engaging. I'm trying to not just be the person standing on the outside and looking at something, but to actually be it, in a way.

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  Believe, Hair, Long

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I took interest in Paris Hilton at one point and got fascinated with her voice.

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  Voice, Paris, Interest

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I've studied film a lot, so I know much more about film than music, but I don't think I could have made films.

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  Thinking, Film, Made

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• Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand that combination, but I'm fascinated by it.

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  Religious, People, Able

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• There's a great relationship between pop music and the way the body could be seen from the inside - when I was singing or listening to music I would change shape in my head, becoming all kinds of things and people. Music is a way of making your body.

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  People, Listening, Singing

  "Jenny Hval's Soft Dick Rock". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. June 15, 2015.

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• I've always been a fan of reading art catalogues from exhibitions, and plays, and I've worked with a surrealist German playwright, Heiner Müller.

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  Art, Reading, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

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  Girl, World, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

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