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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• 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

• 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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  Tags in About, Still

• 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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  Tags in Trying, Beautiful

• 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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  Tags in Playing

• 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

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

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  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Always, Time, Reason

• 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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  Tags in About, Things

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Good, Been, Really

• 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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  Tags in Happy, Like, Really

• 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

• 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

• 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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  Tags in People, Like, 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’ve always been a huge reggae fan.

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  Tags in Always, Been

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

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  Topics in Art

  Tags in Always

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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