Song Quotes by Laufey

Obviously, I want to be taken seriously as a musician.

— Laufey

My mom could tell that I had a natural inclination for music.

— Laufey

I took classical music very seriously as a kid.

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My songwriting is just journaling out my life via song.

— Laufey

I'm just gonna let my music live.

— Laufey

I truly feel like I'm growing up with my music.

— Laufey

I'm very confident in my music.

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I always say I became the musician that I wanted and needed.

— Laufey

Silver Lining' is a love song about being able to set your true personality free when you fall in love.

— Laufey

I think there will be a song for everyone on every album that I do.

— Laufey

I think people care a lot more about mood and feeling than they do genre.

— Laufey

I never look back after finishing a song and think, 'Damn, why did I do that?'

— Laufey

Jazz is all about that. It's bending things and breaking away from what's on the page and improvising.

— Laufey

I'm breaking so many rules every single day, and I think that's where you make good music.

— Laufey

I'm just going to keep making the music I want and hope that it reaches as many ears as possible.

— Laufey

With the kind of music I make, I make very individualistic choices.

— Laufey

With 'Goddess,' I think the song itself tells such a strong story. And for the music video, we really wanted to do…

— Laufey

I think jazz is a bit gatekept. Personally, I think that everyone has space in them to enjoy jazz and jazz-adjacent music.…

— Laufey

Jazz music is all about performance, right? At least, to me, it's about the freedom of performance, the different inflections you do…

— Laufey

That's why I always strive to make timeless, almost a bit cinematic music, because I guess I was looking for an escape…

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The fact that the jazz and classical worlds seem to struggle with the idea of an artist being both commercially successful and…

— Laufey

Sometimes you put a song on TikTok and it does well because it's visually stimulating or it has a hooky lyric, but…

— Laufey

I would say I take a lot of inspiration from jazz and I borrow a lot of principles from it and classical…

— Laufey

I have to live to write. But I try to discipline myself into writing on the spot as well. I think it's…

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Everything I record, I end up putting out. You hear about artists with hundreds of songs in their archive, and I have…

— Laufey

You know, I think so much about relatability when it comes to songwriting, and this experience of being in the limelight isn't…

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Jazz songs have always been quite literal because many of them are taken from musical theater and you only have a couple…

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I just love playing the piano, isn't it lovely?

— Laufey