Ville Valo Quotes

• Music is my God, and it is the only love that has never left me.

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• I hate happy music, that makes me sad. Sad music makes me happy.

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• Art is always criticized and always an outsider takes the blame.

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• Love preys the living, and praises the dead.

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• I love Johnny Cash but I don’t love country music that much.

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• I’m a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.

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  Tags in Record, Book

• Los Angeles and New York are the big centers of the music industry worldwide so of course it can be hard for newcomers who don’t know what to expect from the music business.

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  Tags in Hard, Expect, Know

• I like to listen to mellow stuff on the road like Travis, as we are constantly surrounded by rock music on tour and so its nice listening to mellow stuff. Obviously back at home I listen to a lot more rock music.

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  Tags in Like, Listen

• Well, for us, it’s always better not to have too many expectations and to just go with the flow because then it’s always a big plus no matter what happens.

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  Tags in Always, With, Many

• Hopefully it will be possible to get all our other albums in American shops one day so if people are interested they can hear it but I’m hoping that people are going to be interested in what we are going to do, not just what we’ve done.

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  Tags in People, Will, Just

• It’s the same with visual arts, you have some really cool, wonderful striking images that make you think and then again you have wonderful striking images that just take you away from the existing world for a second. And I like the latter a bit more.

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  Tags in Thinks, Like, With, Just

• Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn’t run into any rednecks.

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  Tags in Run, Just

• I’m a huge fan of James Dean, that got me started. Nowadays I smoke four packs in a day.

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  Tags in James, Smoke, Journalist

• Some genres I’m not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.

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  Tags in Always, People, Way, Break

• It’s like that with what sort of ideas people outside of the band have of HIM. They all see it through a different lens as well which is beautiful. Hopefully, it makes it an endless topic of conversation.

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• Talking about covers, whether visually or sonically, if a particular combination of notes struck a chord in your heart in a way that you want to be a part of it by covering that song, then there’s nothing wrong with it.

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  Tags in Want, Wrong, About, With

• I’ve got asthma. When I was 17 I forgot to take my medication and was taken to a hospital for almost two weeks. After that I’ve taken better care of my illness.

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  Tags in After, Better, Forget

• I have never acted in one and I’m not at all interested to do so either.

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  Tags in Either, Never

• I haven’t travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I’ve never even been to US.

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  Tags in Time, Much, First

• The guys in Kiss use some make up too so at first it was exiting. I’ve almost stopped using make-up nowadays.

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  Tags in Almost, First

Ville Valo (34)

Birth:	22nd November, 1976
Nationality:	Finnish
Profession:	Lyricist, Singer

About

Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and multi instrumentalist. He is the frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. He has received the "Golden God" award in 2004 from the heavy metal magazine Metal Hammer. Valo has a baritone vocal range, and has maintained an octave range around 4 or 5, in full voice, from F1 to F5.

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