Laufey

You can speak something into existence or sing something into existence.

— Laufey

Iceland is so small; classical musicians play on pop projects and pop musicians play with jazz musicians.

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I'll take any opportunity to kind of put my own spin on a jazz standard.

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

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

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

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I'm constantly thinking about classical and jazz, how to properly preserve them and pay homage.

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I hope I'm doing my part in making jazz and classical music more accessible!

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It's funny - there can be so many people around you and so many fans, and you can still feel a bit…

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I think music was always written in the stars for me. I feel like I really had no choice. If I dared…

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There are fans who've been listening to my music since the very beginning. Time is the most valuable resource, and the fact…

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Classical music was very much a part of my life growing up, and it was always playing in the house. And music…

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

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I mean, my dream would be to act in something, or even do kind of a guest role, and couple that with…

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Growing up in Iceland, it was very beautiful, very safe, but quite isolated. There was something about jazz music that had a…

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I don't reject social media at all. Social media is the way to reach an audience and have it be in your…

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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…

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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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Most of my friends' experience has been everything in between - all the confusion and the questions and the 'Oh, am I…

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I would sing in public, and everyone would be like, 'She's got the voice of a divorced woman in the body of…

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

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I never want to stay stagnant, but also want to stay true to myself and true to my sound.

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You have to learn to unlearn, I am a true believer in that.

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My goal is to bring jazz and classical music to my generation through a more accessible road.

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I'm very clearly a girl that spends a lot of time on the Internet, just like every other sad girl.

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Love is the one thing that everybody goes through, but nobody really has cracked the code, right?

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I like to say I listened to three genres of music growing up: classical, jazz and Taylor Swift.

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I know what I know, and I know what I'm good at, so that's enough for me.

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

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I'm not going to do anything insanely different, but an artist always wants to grow.

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I never thought that people would look at me and try to copy my style, but I love it so much.

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Most of my heroes exist in the past, so I don't get a chance to hang out with them.

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I live and I write, and I write and I live. It's kind of just how I am.

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I think the flea markets in L.A. are the best shopping; otherwise, I shop a lot when I'm in Europe.

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

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Every new album for me is a blank book of stories to write.

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

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

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

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