Kygo

I've been a sports fan forever.

— Kygo

I like bringing keyboards and stuff on stage.

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Making music all the time was my dream.

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I really like melodies.

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There's nothing like playing at home.

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When I look for people to work with, I'm just looking for talented people.

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If you do the same thing all the time, it's not very challenging.

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I didn't think it was cool for me to walk around with a huge Kygo logo on myself.

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I really do try and play as many festivals as possible.

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'Coming Over' was probably the fastest collaboration I've ever done.

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When I am back home, I have an upright piano and I play constantly.

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Lemaitre has been one of my inspirations ever since I started making music.

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I think people were looking for something new in the EDM scene and found it in my music.

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I'm always looking to develop my sound and I'm in the studio whenever I have the time to do this. Always looking…

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I started taking piano lessons from the age of six years old. It's such an essential part of what I do in…

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While I was born in Singapore, I didn't actually grow up here. So I don't remember all that much.

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I feel like when I get the demos - I get a lot of demos - but when I get the right…

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I just wanted to make melodies. I started trying to do my own thing and let the melodies make the genre themselves.

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I don't want to make just tropical house. I want to make everything, just like, whatever I feel like making.

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When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and…

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Edinburgh is where I started. A lot of the remixes I made were done in my room there, and it was a…

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Avicii's melodies were so simple and cool, and they were actually similar to the melodies I played on piano. I thought if…

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2015 has been a crazy year for me, and Spotify have supported me right from the start. It's an honour to be…

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I started studying business and finance in Edinburgh as a backup plan. I was still making music many hours a day, and…

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Edinburgh has a similar climate to Bergen - it's very rainy and grey. There were a lot of days I'd sit inside…

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I don't really know too many designers. I like a lot of what Kanye West has done with Yeezy, but I think…

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I always knew I wanted to create original material, and after having meetings with all sorts of record labels, I decided that…

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SiriusXM has had my back ever since day one when I was making remixes in my dorm room at university, and it…

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When I get up there, maybe I'm nervous for the first song, but then I get into it. It's a lot of…

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I don't like to classify my own tracks as a genre.

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I hate being put in a box labelled 'tropical house.'

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I am proud to perform at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert.

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When I make a song, I'm really happy. It's an indescribable feeling.

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I consider myself more of a producer and a musician than a DJ.

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I do have in the back of my head that you never know how long it lasts.

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What I really enjoy and what I do in the studio is play keyboard.

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I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

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It was the fans sharing my music around that started it all for me.

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It's a cool feeling to see how far my music has been spreading.

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If I never showed my face, it would kind of be easier.

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