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I owed it to my father that I was elected to Parliament in the first place, but I owed it to my mother that I stuck it out once I got there.


Agnes Macphail

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AGNES OBEL I don't have a daily routine at all.
AGNES OBEL I love the conversation between film and music.
AGNES OBEL When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio...
AGNES OBEL Everything that has a spare piano is 'like Satie' and everything with strings is 'filmic...
AGNES OBEL When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.
AGNES OBEL It's always difficult to know if a song needs more than piano, and I worry about my tendency to ...
AGNES OBEL With 'Philharmonics,' I had to do a lot of interviews, and it was like I was corrupting some...
AGNES OBEL I used to get very nervous before a concert. It's okay when you are in a band. You can kind of d...
AGNES OBEL I'm very happy that I got introduced to music only as something you got pleasure from.
AGNES OBEL I don't have a classical-music mentality. I haven't been taught that way, and it doesn't...
AGNES OBEL I wish my parents had been more strict and made me learn more instruments.
AGNES OBEL My parents were very relaxed about music.
AGNES OBEL The orchestral or symphonic music never interested me.
AGNES OBEL What I discovered in Berlin was this immense freedom because it felt like you could start any kind o...
AGNES OBEL Sometimes I feel like a melody doesn't have anything to do with me, but it's just something ...
AGNES OBEL The piano and the singing are two equal things to me - maybe not inseparable but very connected. You...
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