Morten Harket Quotes

Morten Harket

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 14, 1959

I never liked the term 'fans.'

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We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.

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For a lot of fans from the early days, they probably had issues they were A-ha fans, because it probably wasn't 'cool.'

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We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

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We were totally confident that we would make it internationally. We had no money or instruments. We used cake tins or bottles with water in them - anything to make sounds.

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We wanted the freedom to be playful, to experiment and do what we felt like doing, but we were heavily affected by the success that the first record gave us.

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When you're at war with yourself, you will go under.

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People think the chorus is the hard part in 'Take on Me,' but they're wrong. The hard part was making the verses bounce.

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I had always wanted to make music on a big scale but never knew how it was going happen - until I saw a band in Oslo called Bridges. I was stunned. They had everything. The only thing they didn't have was me. I knew I needed to join, not for my own sake but for the band's. I knew I was a necessary ingredient.

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We sent a guy called Terry Slater a couple of demos, using the last of our money. And then things turned. He landed us a deal with Warners and said just keep coming up with songs, because when success hits you, you won't even know your name.

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A-ha is not me, Paul, or Magne: it is its own individual that has its own identity and characteristics. It is a result of a particular meeting point between the three of us.

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We didn't feel we fitted into the '80s.

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One of the good things about being away is to digest things and maybe learn from things and see if there are better ways to get to where you want to be.

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What you look like doesn't matter as much as what you feel like. If you feel you look good, you look good. And I never felt that.

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The record company didn't know what we looked like at first. They were all excited about our tapes.

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If looks help, that's great, but we don't want it to be the featured thing. It's totally superficial.

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You have to remember, videos were on the rise back when we did 'Take On Me.'

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We had a large spell in 1985-86, but we would have had to move to the States and be available all the time, so we chose to remain a European act.

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We were never a boy band. We always had much more to offer than that, I thought.

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I grew up in a small mountain town in Norway, and I remember miming to the Beatles on the couch when I was about six, singing into a broomstick, but this was a country that only had one radio station. There was no music around, really.

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