Ville Valo Quotes

• Yeah I’m still writing. I’ve got about 14 tracks now. But we’ve been on tour so we haven’t had time to get back to a rehearsal place.

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• There’s always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they’re beautiful mistakes.

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• Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It’s not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It’s about the fact that I really do enjoy it.

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• Music’s always been really cathartic. It’s the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

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• I’ve always been a huge reggae fan.

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• So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don’t think all those things shut each other out.

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• I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully.

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• I’m living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel.

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• That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens.

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• We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn’t really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don’t have the money.

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• We’re trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

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• Even at school I studied ethics instead of religion.

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• Women are always beautiful.

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

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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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