Quotes by Ville Valo

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Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter, artist, and multi instrumentalist. He is the frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. Valo has a baritone voice type and has maintained a wide vocal range throughout his career.
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I love the Ronettes, the 'do-run-run-run' pop stuff. I love the lyrics, having 'blue, blue blue' being repetitive.

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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

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

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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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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 differ...

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

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

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I've always been a huge reggae fan.

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

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

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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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Play as well as you can; that's it, as opposed to creating these odd paranoias, trying to be something you're not.

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I hate it when bands do that; they're so proud of their new album, they have to play all of it and a couple of golden oldies.

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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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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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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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Author Bio

  • NameVille Valo
  • DescriptionFinnish rock musician
  • AliasesVille Hermanni Valo
  • BornNovember 22, 1976
  • CountryFinland
  • ProfessionSinger; Songwriter