Jenny Hval Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Jenny Hval

  Believe, Hair, Long

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

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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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• 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

  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.

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  Voice, Focus, Sound

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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• 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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• I've always been so interested in the way the body feels when singing or being on stage, or being in the audience for that matter. It doesn't have to be the typical "rock" experience. It can be so much more.

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  Rocks, Singing, Typical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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