Song Quotes by Jens Lekman

Jens Lekman

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.

Dream

Song

Thinking

Jens Lekman

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.

Insignificant Things

Song

Writing

Jens Lekman

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.

Computer

Song

Thinking

Jens Lekman

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

Baby

Hate

Song

Jens Lekman

I kind of like polishing the songs that I’m working on. I’m really working hard on some specific songs.

Hard

Kind

Song

Jens Lekman

I make a living from storytelling – if you’re a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you’re gonna end up in trouble.

Married

Song

Trouble

Jens Lekman

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.

Play

Song

Two

Jens Lekman

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

Song

Thinking

Writing

Jens Lekman

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

Piano

Song

Trying

Jens Lekman

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.

Artist

Cutting

Song

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Airplane

Albums

Arms

Arrangements

Art

Artist

Australia

Awkward

Baby

Becoming

Broken

Careers

Computer

Country

Crowds

Culture

Cutting

Disco

Drawing

Dream

Eight

Family And Friends

Fate

Feels

Fixed

Fun

Get Over

Girlfriend

Gone

Hard

Hate

Heart

Home

House

I Realized

Insignificant Things

Investigation

Kind

Kissing

Listening

Literature

Long

Lovers

Luxury

Making Money

Married

Mind

Needed

Needs

New York

Nice

People

Piano

Play

Records

Remember

Remembered

Ridiculous

Runway

Seductive

Seven

Smooth

Song

Sun

Surfing

Taken

Thinking

Trouble

Trying

Two

Typical

Working A Lot

World

Writing

Years

Song Quotes by Jens Lekman

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.

I hate when songwriters refer to their songs as babies.

I kind of like polishing the songs that I’m working on. I’m really working hard on some specific songs.

I make a living from storytelling – if you’re a public person and you sing songs about getting married to get a visa, and you are actually doing that, you’re gonna end up in trouble.

I think all of my songs are either based on personal experience or will be based on personal experience, because I do write a lot of songs prophetically.

I was trying to actively get away from music, I guess. But I recorded a whole bunch of instrumental piano songs.

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