Morten Harket Quotes

Morten Harket

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 14, 1959

Just to be spontaneous and free is life's biggest luxury and privilege when life is so busy.

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I don't abuse my body - I don't drink much alcohol, don't smoke and never have - but that's the same of many people. I don't think I've ever stopped ageing myself.

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Since I travel so much, my perfect Sunday would start by waking up at home with my partner Inez. We'd have breakfast with our little girl Karmen, maybe in our garden.

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I love just being in the sphere of nothingness looking inwards.

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I do love beauty. I love beautiful tilings. I grow orchids and collect butterflies. But when it comes to relationships, you have to find the person inside.

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I didn't feel like I fitted in. I felt like I was a hindrance to A-ha.

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We had to leave Norway and go where it was all happening, which was London. We loved it there, but it was hard. We had no money - we were literally starving. It started to get ugly.

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When we were kids, Stoke was massive in Norway.

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I've never been uncomfortable being a frontman.

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People have a wild response to something, and they want it. Sometimes people lose themselves.

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We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.

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I actually do sing sometimes.

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I feel very strong about 'Brother.' This is me. I've been writing with a much more free sky, open and free.

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Anything can be interesting as long as you access it from the right angle.

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My brother was an avid Stoke City fan and a good footballer. We shared a room, growing up, and the walls were covered with 1970s Stoke players, like Peter Shilton, Gordon Banks, and Jimmy Greenhoff.

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I'm not an entertainer; I'm an engager. I never sell myself, in a sense.

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I am naturally prone to fun or to be funny, but when I talk about myself in interviews, then it's an intellectual exercise.

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My younger brother was a big Stoke fan, and I was sucked into it. I was kind of waking up every morning and looking at Gordon Banks' face! We had all these small football cards - literally hundreds of them - and swapping them was the currency back then.

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You can love someone and not like them.

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We became such darlings of a certain type of media. We became a package; we became easy to sell: these three golden nuggets that could pour out all the goods. It was all exposure in an almost violent way.

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