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.

  Robyn

  Exercise, Thinking, People

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

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  Real, Trying, Emotion

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

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• The orchid is Mother Nature's masterpiece.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  Technology, People, World

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

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• You cant censor peoples dreams.

  Robyn

  Dream, Cant

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

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  Healing, Doors, Self

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• History is filled with fictional people.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  Mean, Ideas, Safe

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

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.'

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  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.

  Robyn

  Able, Infinite, Moments

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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.

  Robyn

  Song, Integrity, Real

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

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• [In making music] it's nice to not have a goal, to not have a set format. It's very liberating to just get out of your comfort zone and be in a new space.

  Robyn

  Nice, Space, Goal

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• If everything really does get better, the way everyone claims, then happiness should be graphable. But that's crap, because better isn't quantifiable.

  Robyn

  Get Better, Doe, Way

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