Gustav Ejstes Quotes

I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

When I did the vocals, I always became so angry and pissed off.

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are. Everybody is free to interpret the music, as they want. The lyrics of my songs are about different things, but it's all about my issues.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music. If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own. So then I try, and I watch it become something totally different. But that's the way I have to do it.

I'm inspired to keep on when people like what I do.

I've recorded myself for four or five years and have been doing lots of experiments. I'm not that good an engineer - so it always becomes a different song - but I have ideas.

The Swedish folk music - I can't hear any connection between my music and fiddle tunes, but I guess since I grew up with that, kind of, Swedish tone or harmony.

All my teenage years my punk was hip-hop - I just hated pop music.

I was into hip-hop when I was a teenager. Then I started to look for samples, and I started a long Hendrix period - I liked the drums and the beats.

To play Swedish folk music is a lifetime achievement, but I'm well on my way.

I let everyone have [the] space to do what they want, but I think I'm still a bit of a perfectionist.

When I played my own songs, I had to do everything myself to get it the right way, but now I think it's interesting to see how it becomes music.

I thought I had my feet on the ground, but if someone tells you every day you're going to be the next big thing then...So then if you aren't, you think, 'Have I done something wrong?'

Music is for making people happy, lyrics tell them who they are.

Take it easy. Don't approach music as a religion.

I questioned everything about music. I think it's a strange thing standing on a stage and making music. I just questioned it always: What's music? What's the meaning of it?

If I hear a song that I love - how is the groove and how is the beat and what is the feeling of this? - I can make it my own.

I love music so much that I have to try to make my own music. And not copy music.