Tobias Forge Quotes

Tobias Forge

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1981

Even when I wrote death metal songs for a death metal record, I was always trying to do my best to make it as catchy as possible because that's how I like music.

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I prefer catchy, passionate, temperamental music. And as an upside of that, Ghost's repertoire has, over the years, been piqued by a few, sort of, hits.

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If you're going to a show that we're providing support for, or a large festival, you're obviously going to see a condensed version. We have to shave off some fat from the show, so we have to stick to the so-called 'bangers.'

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We've gone from venues that hold 500 up to 3,000 on our own, so I guess we're not entirely unknown. But there is a difference between a few thousand people and 20,000.

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My first teacher... was extremely strict, mean, and deeply religious.

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The reason for a lot of bands not making it is because they don't really understand that your job is sort of divided into two different things. It's one thing creating it... It's like being an architect but also a construction worker.

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'Dance Macabre' feels like one of those songs that you want to play forever.

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Sometimes I just wish I played in a band like Foo Fighters.

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In an alternative life, I would have loved to work in film - I love film.

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I grew up watching a lot of film.

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I think very cinematically.

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My name is Tobias Forge and I'm the man behind the mask in Ghost.

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A band which plays songs such as 'Death Knell' or 'Prime Mover' can't just stand on the stage with a shirt and jeans-jacket. It must be more awesome than that.

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I constantly work with material that could be two years old, five years old, ten years old, as well as new things.

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I usually write a lot. I don't make an album and don't write for two years and then end up with a blank paper starting over.

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Public trials are very unsupervised and extremely swift and speak to the most primordial parts of us.

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The original idea of being anonymous - it was a great, naive idea on paper in 2008, not knowing to what degree we'd be touring or to what extent this was going to be a professional operation. That regimen is very hard to live by. What I hadn't foreseen was the fans and their willingness to embrace that and play along.

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As long as I don't go onstage completely normal and then jump into character onstage, I assume that most fans would be able to accept me as the creator. I can comment on the work the same way a director would on his movie.

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Technically, a Ghost song could just be piano and vocals, but it could also be full, pounding, heavy-thrashing hard rock.

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Even if people would know who we are, or you could click on a Wikipedia page saying my date of birth, it does not necessarily mean that I have to go out on social media and tell you where I'm eating.

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