Tobias Forge Quotes

Tobias Forge

Profession : Musician

Birth : March 3, 1981

If you ever want to play bigger places, you need to have records that sound like you're playing in big places.

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When I was 8 years old, I was already very interested in music.

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As long as I've been doing Ghost, at least, I've been very keen on maintaining not necessarily an anonymity but a low profile. But on the other hand, I spent 25 years not doing Ghost, where, 20 of those years, I wanted to be nothing but a famous rock musician.

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Even though I like speaking freely, I don't really have a desire anymore to profile myself as the individual wanting to be recognized.

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I enjoy the idea of being able to sort of flip-flop between being recognized and not being recognized.

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If you'd asked me when I was six, 16, and 26, I wanted nothing more than to be a big, recognized rock star. Especially when I was six and 16, because I thought that if I was a known guitar player in a known band, only cute girls would talk to me.

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More than often, what you see, or what we've been able to recreate, has usually been a tampered-with version of what I have in my head, because the original idea has always been bigger. Every time I am in the mode of creating a show, there's always some level of gravity that comes in play, either of a monetary sort, or there's a space issue.

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Even though 'Prequelle' is a record about death, essentially, it's a record about survival, and I think that that is something that's gone through all the records. Even back to 'Opus Eponymous,' there was a double meaning to things that doesn't necessarily have to do with evil sermons out of some old grimoire somewhere how to summon the devil.

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For us, if you're a rock band, there's no way around it. You have to tour. You have to tour a whole lot.

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I think that it's crucial. I think that playing live, if you want to be an artist - that's what artists do.

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With Ghost, I never really foresaw that it was going to take off the way it did.

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I like the fact that my work in Ghost is famous, and people know it, and we have our crowd. But I am not as antsy about getting recognized on the street as I might have once been.

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I never, ever, wanna see 'The Conjuring' again - ever. I don't wanna see 'Annabelle' again.

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I'm a big fan of the first one, but one of the first horror films I ever saw on my own was 'Halloween II.' That was my first real experience of Halloween as a concept because in Sweden in the Eighties, we didn't celebrate Halloween.

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I think you need to see parts one, two, and three of 'The Omen.' And then just skip the ending of number three - it's so bad it makes me want to put my foot through the TV.

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I wasn't letting people in with the music writing process, and for a long time, I thought I was hard to work with.

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It's always ideal if the production that you're taking out on tour is the one that you spent two weeks rehearsing with, and you just do the same show thirty nights in a row.

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Artistically, or just performance-wise, I love playing arenas. I think that is my favorite form, because it's big enough to feel like a big, grand show.

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I do believe in the idea of a historic person named Jesus that was a kind of chill dude who was just telling people to chill and be nice to each other. And he got penalized for that.

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I definitely believe that tormenting other people because of the Bible and for that to be - for lack of a better word, Gospel... I think that is not very nice.

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