Morten Harket Quotes

Morten Harket

Profession : Musician

Birth : September 14, 1959

I'd known since I was 17 that I was going to be a star. It was a strange feeling but a very real one.

Morten Harket

The pin-up thing took us completely by surprise. I found it hard because I got singled out, and I didn't like it. There was a lot of disillusionment.

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If you respond to pop music as an older person, then it's your game. But this business has a tremendously visual focus.

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I'm attracted to people who are older rather than younger, and all ages have their potential and limitations.

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It's great to play live. I love it and appreciate it more than I did in the early days. It's a central part of being in A-ha.

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I can choose to be a serious musician, but the sex symbol part is not up to me.

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I do respond to the ideas behind the Eurovision and 'The X Factor,' but they're both so limiting and very, very shallow.

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Mind you, the limelight exists anywhere in the world. When you're not in the U.K., it can be as active somewhere else in the world, and for me, that's more or less been the case, so I never dropped out of the limelight in that sense.

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The video was of paramount importance, because 'Take on Me' was not an instant hit.

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If I didn't travel so much, maybe my perfect Sunday would be skin diving on a coral reef - not scuba diving, as skin diving is more physical, and I prefer the lightness of it. Skin diving means wearing just goggles. Oh, I could wear some trunks, maybe.

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Although I would like to describe the perfect day, I can't. Because a perfect day is one where there is no plan.

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We make music that we believe in. That's all it is.

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We knew we would make it and become very big.

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We ceased to be a band the moment we made it. It left us with nothing. We felt like a failure although we had commercial success.

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The hardest thing to have is success, because it seems to tell people what you are. But it doesn't.

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